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...getting out of control. The paparazzi would abuse Diana, physically and verbally. With no policeman on hand, they would push the lenses right up to her face and obstruct her as she tried to move about. I thought the press would push her over the edge to a mental breakdown...
Despite Carey's earnest disavowals, inquiring fans will find plenty of sport sifting for clues in Butterfly, which debuts next week. The album practically invites speculation with lines such as these from the song Breakdown: "What do you do/ When somebody you're devoted to/ Suddenly stops loving you?"; and these from Babydoll: "Do you care for me/ Beyond idolization?/ Tell me how you feel...
...authors certain that an America devoid of racism--and of affirmative action--would match their dream. "The fabric of society is very complicated," allows Abigail. Why, for example, did so many negative forces--high crime, low test scores, family breakdown, joblessness, poverty--worsen for black communities in the years after 1970? The book suggests it was ugly black rhetoric, ensuing white anger and the failures of affirmative action that accelerated pathologies in black communities--not the rise of drug use, or turmoil over the Vietnam War, or changing sexual mores, or a general cynicism about authority, which affected society...
...blame to Russia's sickly economy, which, he insisted, has not allowed the space agency to maintain the station. "Factories do not operate, and parts have not been delivered," he said. At week's end Tsibliyev was at least partly vindicated when Russian space officials admitted the computer breakdown was caused by an aging component that had not been replaced...
...start allowing them again, says Professor Dan Subotnik of Touro Law Center in New York. As for Dorothy's sweet revenge, the new Mrs. Hutelmyer claims to feel no rancor. "I feel sorry for her," she says. "Until she can acknowledge that she shares in the responsibility of the breakdown of that marriage, she can never get on with her life...