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...immerse myself in the male-weepie canon, even though this meant viewing certain films I had been avoiding for decades, like Brian's Song, Bang the Drum Slowly and The Great Santini. I also read Death of a Salesman and sought out a recording of the old Harry Chapin song Cat's in the Cradle. Certain themes obviously undergird these works: dying fathers, dying athletes, dead fathers, dead athletes. These are romances, to be sure, but instead of the overblown, tear-jerking gestures of male-female romances, the car crashes and death caves and Barbra Streisand ballads ("Misty water-colored...
...many of you answered the roommate application form question on musical tastes with, "I'll listen to anything but country?" But Mary Chapin Carpenter is about as far from the 10-gallon hat and high-heeled boots stereotype as possible. Genre-bending as only a Brown graduate can be, Carpenter was a favorite on the D.C. acoustic scene before making it big on country charts. Next you're going to start digging line dancing. 7:30 p.m., Orpheum Theatre, One Hamilton Place, Boston. 423-NEXT. Tickets...
Irrespective of the outcome of independent counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation of Bill Clinton, we have come a long way from George Washington's succinct "I cannot tell a lie." C. DIXON LEE III Chapin...
...Harry Chapin's "Taxi" blares from the overheadspeakers as one of the locals in the corner loudlydiscusses his upcoming vasectomy operation, onlytwo short days away. This time, Mike shoots hismouth off about Iraq, Monica Lewinsky, the Bruins'incompetence, and other topics to anyone who willlisten. Nearly every pool table is full. At oneside of the room, a bearded man in his early 30smoves slowly in a circle, practicing a cut shotfrom every diamond on the table. Two Latinopatrons in work-stained t-shirts speak softly inSpanish and slam home stripes and solids inongoing games of eight-ball. Next to them...
...often scandals come to this. The fate of those on the upper deck hangs on the mettle of those below. History belongs to Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright--until it devolves to Dwight Chapin and Rose Mary Woods and Betty Currie. But this time we have more than the keeper of the secrets moving center stage; we have the moral center of a drama that had lacked one. If Linda Tripp has come to be the Iago of the piece, full of malice, Currie occupies a place of goodness nearly unparalleled. One of her closest friends, Judy Green, a vice...