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...packet contains four accordion-folded pamphlets describing different aspects of Dartmouth...
...late '70s and early '80s by such rock heroines as Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders and Tina Weymouth of the Talking Heads -- songwriters and instrumentalists all. Until they came along, a girl with an electric guitar seemed as incongruous as a horse with an accordion. Says Madder Rose guitarist-singer Mary Lorson: "I didn't really start playing guitar until I was 22 because it just didn't occur to me that this was something I could do with my life...
...nice fills by Watts. Richards' vocals and guitar on "Thru and Thru" don't quite live up to his success with the recent insta-classic "Eileen," though. "Mean Disposition" brings back Mick the way he is remembered; you can practically hear him strutting. There's no acoustic guitar or accordion nonsense on this track, just guitar, bass, piano and drums pushed along by the blaring voice we all know and love...
...should always look back on our own past," he said, "with a sort of tender contempt." The past echoed in Potter's inner ear like an accordion rendition of Peg o' My Heart: trite, tinny, extraordinarily potent. But as his days dwindled, he attended, rapturously, to the present. "I'm almost serene," he said to Bragg. "I can celebrate life. Below my window there's an apple tree in blossom. It's white. And looking at it -- instead of saying, 'Oh, that's a nice blossom' -- now, looking at it through the window, I see the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom...
...time of his death, Camus was working on a long autobiographical novel, which he called Le Premier Homme (The First Man). Near the scene of the fatal accident, investigators found Camus's mud-stained, accordion-style black briefcase; among its contents were 144 handwritten manuscript pages containing about 80,000 words -- a first version of the first part of his intended work. Camus's widow Francine refused all entreaties to publish the unrevised fragment, but his daughter Catherine, now 48, who inherited her father's estate after her mother's death in 1979, decided that the manuscript would be made...