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and began evolving the est weal iconoclast that became the hallmark of has prompted Sontag to we her Early and unhappy marriage to he u aeon a sociology professor at the uni she is disturbed by current no proof character someone to exactly the she we Vou look Back on your life and tight Why did i stay married that a Good student in maybe i was re sent impulses i repress my emotion who thai s Ako called being t now a single person who Doest re l How can you if youre educated and 1 activity that requires plan 1 identified with that because flags we All fear that were not sex Jot hats the going psychological Century it was the but 1 dont the cause of new York times pinball Empress you Mutt surrender by Dolores Barclay associated press the song stylist stood before the pinball a rhythmically bumping her knee into the crazy technology to make the steel Ball do her bid Roberta rack said As the Ball rolled past the flippers and out of she had Only one More Chance to reach Points and get a free she look that pings every Light in the game came on with spurts of Green and Amber Energy for a delighted a gentle smile slowly made us Way across her face until her entire Demeanour shone As Bright As the pinball Bright As her award studded she As she zoomed Over the free Ball now that the Way to really do the pinball Empress left toe still boiling machine and poured Benela a cup of code la the Manhattan restaurant she liken to no one her she can play pinball and is permitted la simply Roberta it bothers me when people dont accept me As a she said Between some people want me to to Roberta Flack with coif fed hair and painted fingernails and Lota of 1 think its important to be around me when Imro Berta Flack the Ive been very theres a lot of space when in just in not on stage All the she sometimes Shes half Way round the world in sometimes Shes in the studio making a sometimes Shes quietly writing poetry or thinking about the Book that gnawing inside some Timea Shes communicating with her and some times Shes engaged in a program for the and with All she works on her doctorate at the University of at the Shes Busy promoting her latest Blue lights in the her second self produced record it is a musical journey through the simplicity and ele vation of love and the twists and plunges of being the vocals have that distinctive Roberta Flack easiness White performing in the Shes Quick to its particularly difficult for a woman to simultaneously be a producer and an All of those negative attitudes others project have to be dealt and that slows Down the the pinball Empress smiled she had a Confes sinn she wants to Start writing her own with the urge to write some music is the desire to per form in different languages and do some its the kind of Art form that constantly takes you Back to where you came its the one most natural to me the negro i hear it in my its the sort of music that lakes Roberta Hack All the Way Back to her Black her family moved to when she was still that where her father salvaged an upright piano and started his daughters love affair with at the age of she won second place in a statewide contest for Black playing a Scarlatti t practice nine to 10 Boon a Day Zalbe classical but Hacks were and Tuu an discouraged from g from going into classical she leans Forward and her quiet voice grows softer to live is to Buffer and particularly for Black the Only Way to Surv vels to be Flack entered Howard University when she was by the time she she had directed an Amateur production of Verdis she was barely 20 when she went to teach English for a year in a segregated school a year she was Back teaching in but at Flack was the Darling of the pop scene at a number of Load bistros and by she had become something of a Star at a Georgetown club called her first first was released two years but did not generate the excitement of in with four albums to her a Clint East Wood play misty for was it used the lyrical first time Ever i saw your face from her first album throughout the the single won grammy awards As record of the year that ability to project a quiet suffering and carry pain and song of the where is the a duo she did the ability to go from a husky but gentle hum with Donny won the award for Best pop vocal to a near gospel i try to project emotion and in lag and not pre she exchanging her Coffee for unadulterated Mineral Yon really have to go inside yourself and use your imagination and take the you really Hart to Knock yourself her last feel like mown came out in Many artists have suffered fro such lengthy lapses Between including grammy winners like but she has Little to worry two songs from her new album the closer 1 get to and 25th of last december already have been released As singles and Are climbing the charts production is guaranteed to slow you she you cant be in the control Booth with the Engineer by a the next year her recording of killing me softly won grammy awards As record of the song of the year and Best pop vocal by a and during these tides of her records were also certified Roberta you touch a record and it die u is not entirely be Speaks of surrendering you must surrender yourself in music or la any when Yon do surrender and give up its the truth a True surrendering of spirit and so you can never be too adversely criticized or of because its the the same with perhaps the Empress laughs with All her the stars and stripes Page 15