Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only experience with Soul Coughing comes from a brief encounter after they opened up for The Dave at the FleetCenter earlier this month--a venue unsuited for their musical style and their crowd, too. That combined with the heavily rotated "Soundtrack to Mary" (which one sometimes will hear after "Missing" on Kiss 108 and before any Mariah song) sums up what I was expecting...
...After a brief summary with some illuminating details, McCorkle read a humorous passage taped on a cheap recorder bought on the character Denny's journey to her new home. This brassy women is running away from her less than satisfactory marriage-to-a-job as a therapist in Fulerton, North Carolina. Throughout this narrative the audience murmured in agreement with the observations Denny makes about life. She describes her future as a search for love, happiness, "good clothes and leather accessories." McCorkle described Denny as being her alter ego, the character "without a filter." Ironically, Denny and Wallace are McCorkle...
...Jones industrial average flirts with a record 6000. What the market serves up one day it can steal back the next, and we are long overdue for an encounter with this sometime crook's larcenous side. Some thought a meeting was in store last summer. But after a brief lull, this unprecedented bull market was off and charging again. It's now been six years since the broader market gauge, the Standard & Poor's 500, fell as much as 10%--twice as long as ever before...
...newspapers' unique needs. At the Inquirer, which won 17 Pulitzer Prizes in 18 years under its former editor, Eugene Roberts Jr., staff members cite attempted cost-reducing measures that range from ridiculous to troubling: last year reporters were told they could not dial directory assistance, and at one brief point all long-distance calls were banned, as was travel to New York City, all of two hours away. "Morale has been low, there's no denying that," says the paper's executive editor, Robert Rosenthal...
...Dole is behind in the polls--and trailing at the bookstores. Clinton's election-season tome quickly turned into a best seller. Not so for Dole's brief treatise (158 pages), which was co-written with his famously verbose running mate. If the election was decided at the cash register, Dole and Clinton would be also-rans to General Colin Powell, who has achieved the equivalent of a literary landslide (2.6 million copies in print) with his pre-election teaser. And what of that other man of letters, Ross Perot? He's rushing his "me too" autobiography to bookshelves this...