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...been in fawning profiles commissioned by the glossy magazines that depend on him for ads. As a rich, handsome man he is a big target, though, and the arrival of a tell-all expose like Obsession: The Lives and Times of Calvin Klein, by Steven Gaines and Sharon Churcher (Birch Lane Press; $22.50), was almost inevitable. The authors do not fawn -- they revel in describing the people Klein copied, the deals he made, the collaborators he turned against. Above all, they dwell on his heavy drug use and bisexuality...
DIED. ERIC SHOW, 37, former major league baseball pitcher; of unknown causes; in San Diego. The erstwhile star of the San Diego Padres, whose wicked slider mystified batters and whose extreme John Birch-style politics alienated many teammates, was found dead in a drug-rehab center. In recent years, Show apparently struggled with drugs and emotional problems, in dramatic contrast to his status a decade ago as the winningest pitcher the Padres had ever known; he led his team to their only National League pennant in 1984, and held the club strikeout record. The public may remember him best...
...whose 1979 first LP has reappeared in America as a DGC CD (apparently at the request of some guy from Seattle named Cobain, who's been a big Raincoats fan for years). If they're famous for anything, the Raincoats are famous for their feminism. Ana da silva, Gina Birch, Vicki Aspinall, Shirley O'Loughlin and Palmolive not only avoided the musical and verbal cliches of 50s-style 1-2-3-4 rock and roll-cliches the first wave of (male) punks had just copied; the Raincoats actually said to the British music press that they wanted to avoid those...
...ethic showed up in their economic: the original Raincoats LP was one of the first full-length releases on the cooperative Rough Trade label. It showed up in the record's crisp production, in which each movement of fingers along the electric-guitar finger-board, and each breath Gina Birch takes, can be heard. And it showed up in the lack of "technical skill" which informs each musical move: it's normal to say that the Raincoats discovered their style in part because they "couldn't play their instruments" in conventional ways. Maybe; whether or not they "could," they clearly...
...crusade for sex education in much the way AIDS does today. In 1940 the U.S. Public Health Service argued the urgent need for schools to get involved, and within a few years the first standardized programs rolled into classrooms. But by the 1960s came the backlash from the John Birch Society, Mothers Organized for Moral Stability and other groups. By the early '70s they had persuaded at least 20 state legislatures to either restrict or abolish sex education...