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...Beach Boys were nearly undone by Smile and by the eventual release of Smiley Smile, a much simplified version of the original that Brian's lead- guitarist brother Carl Wilson referred to as "a bunt instead of a grand slam." The seven albums that the Beach Boys went on to release between 1967 and 1972 sold something like a million copies, total. Wilson retreated, becoming rock's foremost eccentric, a kind of beach-bound Sasquatch; the band struggled on, often without his participation, becoming largely a nostalgia act, a confection for sentimentalists and California dreamers...
Members of the Cambridge Alliance, which was formed in part as a splinter group of the CCA, are careful to distance themselves from the new political organization. But Carl Barron, a Central Square business person who was a founder of the alliance, knows enough about the political organization to say that "a new group will be announced in the next week...
Superbly acted by a cast of nonstars and tautly directed by Carl Franklin (One False Move), Laurel Avenue is honest but not exploitative, affirmative without sappy TV "uplift." The basketball star, after a stormy date with the Arnetts' teenage daughter, suddenly draws a gun and points it at his own head. "I blew it," he cries, then wearily puts the pistol down. (No easy violence here.) The troubled single mother, after being abused by her ex- boyfriend, is so depressed that she can't face a job interview. "You can do anything you want to do," her father urges...
Maryland's Blue Cross plan suffered a drop in net worth from $122 million in 1985 to $25 million by the end of 1992. The recently departed boss, Carl Sardegna, was given compensation of $775,000, twice the average for the Blues. In return the plan's policyholders received abysmal service marred by delays and lost claims. U.S. Senate investigators accused Sardegna and colleagues of overstating the company's net worth, keeping its directors in the dark and printing deceptive advertising about its fiscal health...
EDITORIAL FINANCE: Genevieve Christy (Manager); Esther Cedeno, Morgan Krug, Katherine Young (Domestic); Camille Sanabria, Carl Harmon, Aston Wright (News Service); Linda D. Vartoogian, Wayne Chun, Edward Nana Osei-Bonsu (Pictures...