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Sonny Landreth, who made his name as the guitarist for John Hiatt on the "Slow Turning" album about 10 years ago, manages to dodge both of these bullets on his second solo outing, "Levee Town," turning out a sturdy batch of bluesy "swamp pop" that's fairly dripping with riffsome virtuosity. Landreth's bailiwick is electric slide guitar, to which he brings a a killer sound and a revved-up attitude that takes the legacy of Ry Cooder and Lowell George and gooses...
...Each spring admissions officers amass boxes full of discarded watercolors and videotaped productions of the Music Man - and the occasional batch of brownies - all sent by students hoping such extras will increase their prospects. More often they distract readers from the real meat of the application. One Cornell applicant, Budding Author, directed readers to her "countless short stories and novellas." Though the admissions officers were impressed with the other parts of Budding Author's application, they didn't quite know what to make of her creative writing. "Well it's not quite soft porn," said a confused Walbridge. Instead...
...family-values campaigning. Standing on a family-values platform is like casting Richard Gere in a movie. It doesn't guarantee a hit, but it's a decent bet, and even the most hotheaded limousine liberal will do nothing to jeopardize a Democrat's chance to make the next batch of Supreme Court appointments. Perhaps if the congressional critics were all Republicans, as Dan Quayle can tell you, the studios would be scripting a more colorful response and sending Chris Rock to the Hill to deliver it. Or perhaps not, for it pays these days to stay on the good...
...body into skipping its monthly menstrual cycle several times in the past year. How? Instead of taking the last seven pills in her contraceptive case, which contain the placebos, or dummy pills, that allow her uterine lining to slough off each month, she immediately started her next month's batch of active medication. Result: instead of the usual 13 periods a year, she had nine...
...been ardent supporters of the military-style tactics of Colombian anti-drug units, tactics that include widespread aerial fumigation of drug crops. And so, when starving children and destitute farmers see an approaching UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, they do not praise their savior. Crop dusting might destroy one batch of drugs, but it obliterates the lifestyle of ordinary people struggling to survive...