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Andrew Wyeth might summer there. Bob Newhart could run the colonial inn. Eastwick -- it looks like a travel poster for the New England dream. It surely boasts a trio of dream girls: Alexandra (Cher), who sculpts clay Earth Mothers; Jane (Susan Sarandon), who cues the school band with a hearty "Horns up!"; and Sukie (Michelle Pfeiffer), abustle with her six kids. All are displaced, not quite fulfilled by their evenings together swapping naughty secrets. And when this comely sorority is restless, Eastwick suffers, with plagues of sudden storms and cherry pits. The women are witches, you see. And now they...
...founding editor of New York in 1968, Clay Felker pioneered the brash, trend-spotting magazine devoted to capturing the beat of a city. Felker, who went on to Esquire and U.S. News & World Report, is returning to native ground, this time as editor of Manhattan,inc. (circ: 85,000), a glossy, literate, monthly specializing in examinations of power and the powerful in New York City...
Such are the scenes of morning in the scandal-scarred spring of 1987. Lamentation is in the air, and clay feet litter the ground. A relentless procession of forlorn faces assaults the nation's moral equanimity, characters linked in the public mind not by any connection between their diverse dubious deeds but by the fact that each in his or her own way has somehow seemed to betray the public trust: Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, Michael Deaver, Ivan Boesky, Gary Hart, Clayton Lonetree, Jim and Tammy Bakker, maybe Edwin Meese, perhaps even the President. Their transgressions -- some grievous and some...
Neither were his children, whose flights from home are cause for empty-nest humor. There is, for example, the irony of a successful junk sculptor sourly contemplating the marginal occupations of his offspring: a daughter who molds clay "pinch pots" in California; another who edits a genealogy journal in Cincinnati and is writing a "highly ambitious feminist novel called Ever Since Eve." One son makes mobiles, "unrequested by the world," while his brother tries to crack the Manhattan film world of "lost young souls stoned on media, pounding the sidewalks and virtually (who knows? -- maybe actually) selling their bodies...
...intensity level really took a jolt upwards with the start of the Bullet LaVolta. After the delicate sound of the Blake Babies, the decibel sound of Bullet hit you like a well-aimed right from Mike Tyson. Bullet LaVolta's strength comes from duelling guitars of Adams House junior Clay Tarver and Adams House Classics Tutor Corey Brennan: Tarver favors straight-forward riffs while Brennan produces lightning-quick metal solos. The result is a combination of licks reminiscent of the best MC5 or Cream and the manual dexterity of modern metal...