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...academic journal. Graphics and layout are dense and often confusing. Photos are usually portraits of the same tired faces. When political news breaks, the front pages can feature as many as five articles on the subject by leading journalists providing individual takes. Yet context or background is rarely provided. "The reader of the printed press already knows what's going on," says Mancini. "They have the news. What they want is gossip...
Behrens, who died Aug. 18 at 72, began her career later than most. After abandoning a background in law to pursue music, she made her professional debut in 1971, with just four years of vocal training and without a single acting class under her belt; her first director had advised her against taking drama lessons, correctly predicting that her raw instincts onstage would become one of her greatest strengths...
Already unconventional with her outspokenness, Miyuki Hatoyama can claim a background uncommon for most Japanese women: she was born abroad and has lived overseas for more than 10 years in her adulthood, she has had more than one career, and she is in her second marriage. Born in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, she returned when she was one year old and grew up in Kobe. By 18, under the name Miyuki Waka, she was acting with the all-female Takarazuka Theater troupe, a traditional Japanese revue with a style somewhere between a glitzy Las Vegas spectacle and a Pyongyang parade...
...Staring at the Steeple,” pairing it nicely with the wacky glut of hammer-ons in “Keep Me in the Dark” or “Cups and Punches,” which comes complete with a few seconds of mildly disturbing background screaming. This album meets the Furnaces’ standard of obscure, funny lyrics, but it’s melodically stripped-down and uncomplicated—which, considering the alienating quality of some of their more challenging records, is a nice change. “I’m Going Away?...
...doubt. A medical officer's report to MacAskill, dated Aug. 10, says, "It is very difficult to be precise on matters of prognosis for any disease, and Mr. Megrahi's condition is no different ... Factors in favor of a good prognosis in Mr. Megrahi's case center around his background of general good health, quality of health care and overall lifestyle, involvement in his care and compliance with treatment." Justice Minister Straw has said he originally argued to have al-Megrahi excluded from last November's bilateral prisoner-transfer agreement but ultimately gave in to Libya's demands...