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LINDA RONSTADT: CRY LIKE A RAINSTORM, HOWL LIKE THE WIND (Elektra/Asylum). Ronstadt takes lessons learned from her three successful albums of pop standards and puts them to work on the kind of material she did so well in the '70s: confessional ballads and songs of love gone amiss. The cathedral- filling orchestral arrangements threaten the fragile structure of some songs, but Ronstadt's singing (superbly accompanied on four tracks by New Orleans soulster Aaron Neville) keeps everything on course...
Baltimore's critics realize that congressional investigations are not undertaken lightly. Something was seriously amiss, and Congress intends to do something to prevent similar incidents in the future. Unfortunately, Congress's handling of the recent controversy surrounding funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities doesn't inspire much confidence in its ability to intervene intelligently in such matters...
Nothing seemed amiss when Captain Alfred Haynes, 59, a 33-year United Airlines veteran, lifted the three-engine DC-10 into sunny skies over Denver for a two-hour flight to Chicago. The airliner, configured to hold 287 passengers, had only five vacant seats. Since United had designated July as "picnic month," the eight flight attendants served mini-baskets of chicken sticks, crackers and cheese...
...analogy, but this is clearly Bush's intention. I don't want to hear that this is really the way the Bushes act--cute, lovable and united. But when the most productive and fertile element coming from the White House has been six Springer Spaniels, something is clearly amiss...
Steiner's attitude is common among the administration. Just about every other week, the Freshman Dean's Office reports an intrusion into a female freshman's room. In Hollis, a student woke up to find a man at the foot of her bed. Rather than realizing something is amiss, administrators are quite satisfied with the campus security system. It is we--the students--who ought to reform ourselves, they say. Our watchwords should be "vigilance" and "caution," according to administrators...