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...performed at Tiananmen Square in 1989, 15 days before the crackdown. I sang A Piece of Red Cloth, a tune about alienation. I covered my eyes with a red cloth to symbolize my feelings. The students were heroes. They needed me, and I needed them. After Tiananmen, however, the authorities banned concerts. We performed instead at "parties," unofficial shows in hotels and restaurants...
...BAKKER is not a traditional man of the cloth, unless all clerics are hiding tattoos under their robes. As Rolling Stone reports, Jay, 23, son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, has followed his father into the family business, but he preaches to a flock of punks and outcasts instead of TV viewers. After his father went to prison for fraud and his mother remarried, Jay turned to drugs and alcohol. He has straightened out and now aims to reach others who feel alienated. Says Bakker: "The church needs to stop figuring out ways [to] fight Marilyn Manson [and] start...
...wasn't so long ago that politicians talked at us incessantly. They were scolds, know-it-alls, flatterers, braggarts, blowhards, loudmouths, balloon-juice merchants--choose your epithet. They were in love with the sound of their own voice. They wouldn't shut up. You could gag them with terry cloth, wrap them in cellophane, dump them in the Mariana Trench--you could plug your ears with a Walkman and crank up a Def Leppard CD to 10--and still you'd hear the little tinny yap-yap of some office seeker promising cleaner streets, safer subways, cavity-free teeth. There...
...played a unique role in supplying green book bags, wooden 'Coop boxes' for storage, and cloth bags in which laundry was picked up by the Coop from entryways," Webb recalls...
...Revolution, the centuries-old ancestor records compiled by villages were declared "feudal garbage." In India, where most vital statistics are still unrecorded, rare documents are at Hindu holy spots where priests, known as pundits, write down births, deaths and marriages. But the documents, narrow sheaves of paper tied in cloth, are crumbling from rot, and the pundits themselves are dying...