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...house a bobtailed cat prowls the kitchen counter while Trigger, the pet guinea pig, snoozes in its cage. "The hardest thing for me is that this was the happiest any of us had ever been," says Woodard. On the morning of the shooting, Mitch had sat at her circular kitchen table, slumped in her spindle-back chair, chuckling with his stepfather over how an old woman grabbed his ear during a visit by his church group to a local nursing home. Mitch, who had been troubled since Gretchen's divorce from his father, Scott Johnson, in 1994, had seemed happier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother of The Accused | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

That scheme was rejected by her publishers, and Paradise was released to the public with a mournful, creakily "mystical coda that is easily the least effective passage of the book. Even without that concluding misstep, though, the impact of the first chapter within the circular framework Morrison attempts is severely diluted by two factors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toni Reigns in Paradise | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

...believe West was concerned that those living in "inner-city and rural poverty" would not be open to that "public space" given their conditions. But those conditions are not predicated on their abilities and their "skills," but the absence of opportunities and outlets to their inescapable circular situations. As West expressed, we need to recognize the "extraordinary in ordinariness" in all people regardless of their economic, demographic, social, etc. apparent limitations. Americans living in "inner-city and rural poverty" are not "least-skille,d," they are forgotten. They are not open to the "public space" and thus, rendered voiceless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: West's Concern in Speech Was for Forgotten Poor | 3/6/1998 | See Source »

...influences Europe's weather as well, was considered to be primarily a manifestation of the atmosphere. But researcher Michael McCartney of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution thinks it too is heavily influenced by the sea--in this case by an ocean gyre, a surface current that follows a sweeping circular route. This gyre, he believes, affects the atmosphere by shuttling parcels of warm and cold water between the tropics and northern latitudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fury Of El Nino | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

...staging of the concert also left a great deal to be desired. The stage consisted of a large staircase in the center, with two platforms on either side of the staircase: one platform for the DJ and another for a drummer. There were three circular video screens above the stage showing random computer animations of various geometrical objects which had no relevance to most of the songs. Only occasionally did the video screens display music videos that corresponded to the performed songs...

Author: By Joshua H. Simon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Family Values: Puffy and Friends a Mixed Bag | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

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