Crystal Robinson scored 17 points as the visiting New York Liberty beat the Seattle Storm, 78-61, last night to spoil the debut of overall No. 1 draft pick Sue Bird. Bird, who led Connecticut to the NCAA championship last season, scored 11 of...

CHRISENA A. COLEMAN, Record Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 11-08-1992 QUIET STORM, SOCIAL WHIRL -- WBLS MAKES THE CLUB SCENE By CHRISENA A. COLEMAN, Record Staff Writer Date: 11-08-1992, Sunday Section: LIFESTYLE / ENTERTAINMENT Edition: All Editions -- Sunday Biographical: VAUGHN...

Lauryn’s boho, Mary’s bluesy, and Lil’ Mo’s gangsta—but none of the ladies of hip hop soul are as brazen in the new rap M.O. as Beyoncé Knowles. The superstar fuses her naked ambition for crossover success—evidenced by the frothy pop tunes she wrote for Destiny’s...

[The] sensuality of its lyrics and the loose, improvisational feel of the backup suggest that [the title tune of A Quiet Storm] is going to be Robinson's What's Going On or Innervisions, a formula-defying statement of both personal and social import. But Robinson is moved neither by Marvin Gaye's macho sensibilities nor by Stevie Wonder's semimystical mental images…. [He] naturally passes over both self-celebration and prophecy in favor of love and happiness. And his insti...

[A Quiet Storm is] a beautifully produced and recorded album by Smokey Robinson. He performs, with his usual pliant ease, another collection of his own songs, and there is some entertainment to be found in Happy and Love Letters. The main problem with Robinson's work is that he has a broad streak of marshmallow sentimentality which, while it may be genuine on his part, eventually seizes me in the kind of clammy embrace that means turn-off. (p. 80)

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