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Jimmy Buffett has lived in some of the sweetest spots on the planet--Key West, Aspen and St. Barts before they became boutiques--but right now it looks as if there's no other place he'd rather spend the weekend than a staid Midwestern city hours from the nearest beach. "Saturday night in Cincinnati--it don't get no better than this!" Buffett yelps as his 13-piece Coral Reefer Band takes the stage in Mardi Gras costumes and towering headdresses. The crowd at the Riverbend amphitheater roars its agreement: 18,500 otherwise respectable people, many in full tropical...
...University of South Carolina. The next night he saw her again, "wearing a tight, long pink dress that made a lasting impression on me." Jane moved in with Buffett and never did get back to school. They were married in 1977--the year Margaritaville hit--at an all-night Aspen blowout (the wedding band was the Eagles). But after five more years among the rock aristocracy, Jane needed a change. "I'd been with Jimmy since I was child, through the craziest times, and I didn't have a clue who I was. So I left. I got sober...
LOCATION Those guests who don't have homes in the area check into one of Aspen's two top hotels...
...references to wood and other elements of nature in the choice of victims. Jones, then studying American literature at Brigham Young University, theorized that the Unabomber was using a literary device known as juxtaposition. By mailing a bomb to a person named Wood or someone living on Aspen Drive, the Unabomber was saying technology was destroying nature. But by making the bomb partly out of wood and selecting victims who represented the advance of technology, he was sending a second message: Technology was destroying both itself and nature. Intrigued, the FBI asked for more, and a year before the arrest...
...wood and other elements of nature in the choice of victims. Jones, then a graduate student in American Literature at Brigham Young University, theorized that the Unabomber was using a literary technique called juxtaposition. By mailing an explosive device to a person named Wood, or someone living on Aspen Drive, the Unabomber was saying that technology destroyed nature. But by making the bomb partly out of wood, and choosing victims who represented the advance of technology, he was sending a double, underlying message: technology was destroying both itself and nature...