Word: barrette
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hard, similarly, is "about being part of the record industry and being fucked, and the girls who fuck you over along the way." Asked about the increased hostility that this transition has brought to the band's music, trumpet and flugelhorn player Tavis Werts explains that lyricist Aaron Barrett "writes the lyrics from what he is feeling at the moment, and obviously, he was feeling different when he wrote the lyrics for the latest album." So not only are the words dysfunctional, they're also based on personal experience. How very...
...their avaricious money games. Surely the "geniuses" running this shell game knew the earth-shaking risks involved, and they proceeded anyway. This is much worse than unfettered hubris. Shouldn't the well-to-do speculators be severely punished for exposing all the rest of us to such dangers? SUSAN BARRETT St. Louis...
Other stories in our package examine, in a commonsense manner, theories on multiple intelligences, gender stereotyping, and learning in the first few years of life. Says special-projects editor Barrett Seaman, who oversaw the report: "These stories are designed to reveal the truth amid the hype...
...obsession--the search in the high Arctic for a northwest passage to the Pacific--that now seems bizarre. Ships were crushed. Men died of scurvy, watched by healthy Inuit tribesmen who were scorned as beasts. Ill-fated expeditions followed, intent on rescue, science or glory. One of these is Barrett's stage, on which two sharply opposed men, a bookish naturalist and a flamboyant expedition chief, struggle for the right to tell, or embellish, shabby truths. The chief ships an Inuit boy and his mother to the U.S., live specimens, and there she dies. That the naturalist manages to return...
...call 24 hours a day and equipped with hospital pagers, the team was directed and its work edited by Barrett Seaman, our special-projects editor. Nancy Gibbs, the senior editor who conceived the project, staked out the infant intensive-care unit. Adam Cohen, a staff writer, checked out Duke's marketing strategy. Senior writer David Van Biema's beeper alerted him whenever a patient was feared to be dying. Deputy photo editor Rick Boeth marshaled the photographers chronicling the action. Veteran science correspondent Dick Thompson and senior reporter Alice Park "knew what the doctors were talking about, which made them...