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...calls herself tigereye, posted a message: "Kathleen Johns((t))on kj on the WELL, who's housebound in the final stages of cancer, could use a little help with light meals once or twice a week." The following are excerpts from the exchange that followed. KJ herself is noticeably absent. She was in no shape to take part in a message board...
...Piano" has the quality of a comet bursting forth in a year in which cinematic greatness has been rare. It showcases a sensual and poetic sensibility which has for the most part been absent in the history of film. In order to do this, the movie takes many risks, and brings them off spectacularly. Jane Campion has fashioned a masterpiece, one woman's private symphony. Let yourself be seduced by the wondrous music of the peerless "Piano...
Conspicuously absent from the jacket is bassist Bill Wyman's replacement, Darryl Jones. He seems relegated to the same fold as the usual round of backup vocalists, keyboardists and horn players. It is true that bass was never the glamor solo position in this particular band. The jacket's centerfold portrays a scene of model skeletons that's a direct rip-off from the Black Crowes' second album, "Southern Harmony...
...their long and bitter road to democracy, this deference has not been extended to certain symbolic trappings of the old order. At the opening of Parliament last week, a ceremonial golden mace embellished with a frieze of circled ox wagons -- symbolic of the struggle of Afrikaner nationalists -- was conspicuously absent. An official muttered something about "a technical problem," though others think it will not be long before the mace, along with other totems of the old order (perhaps the hallway statues and portraits of die-hard white-supremacist heads of government), is relegated to the ash heap of history...
What is most conspicuously absent from the document is any commitment on the part of the U.S. to live up to the ideals of the United Nations, which were, at root, to turn back aggression through concerted action. In its place are assurances that the U.S. will rigorously examine U.N. operations before voting for them. While there can be no doubt of the need for more planning and foresight in U.N. operations, the tone of the document would make Woodrow Wilson turn in his grave...