Beyoncé: The Times Is On It

Photo: Juergen Teller For T Magazine. It has recently come to the Gray Lady's attention that Beyoncé exists. Well, Beyoncé as a commodity -- you know, a thing and brand that we are, as SNL so aptly put it, compulsively required to bow down to. "She is a kind of national figurehead, an Entertainer in Chief; she is Americana," T Magazine's Jody Rosen explains in the publication's latest cover story. "Someday, surely, her 'Single Ladies' leotard will take its place alongside Mickey Mouse and the ...