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...Ronnie had a weird natural vibrato - almost a tremolo, really - that modulated her little-girl timbre into something that penetrated the Wall of Sound like a nail gun. It is an uncanny instrument. Sitting on a ragged couch in my railroad flat, I could hear her through all the arguments on the street, the car alarms, the sirens. She floated above the sound of New York while also being a part of it - a Bronx-born Latina stomping her foot on the sidewalk and insisting on being heard...
...Love." Phil opens with a seismic riff - a sax line of tectonic dimension, especially on crankin? speakers - but the song's just starting, and the second time through he adds the backup vocals: "Bop bop bop, bop bop ba-dah-dah dah-dah..." I'm sitting on that couch in the dark, my next-door neighbor is pounding on the wall, and I can't get up to turn it down! I am not prepared for this - I haven't even heard the chorus and I'm like - what? St. Theresa in Ecstasy? Jesse Orosco at the bottom...
...average couch potato about the slumping euro, and you'll probably hear all about Svetlana Khorkina's early mistrials on the uneven bars in Sydney. Far more meaningful, though, are the mistrials of the virtual currency that much of Euroland adopted in 1999 to simplify trade and build economic muscle. A spendable euro won't be in print before 2002. Until then, it's a calculation that 11 nations peg their currencies to, and so far it hasn't worked well for Europeans. Underscoring the trouble: Denmark last week elected not to join the Euro union...
...momentarily distracted when I spotted U.S. swimmer Misty Hyman and followed her into the gift store because she's cute and I figure she'll marry anybody to lose that last name. My hair, however, along with my couch-potato-esque fingernails, kept her from returning my glances, so I went to see Laura Novell, who has been doing athletes' nails for 10 hours a day, six days a week without a break for the past three weeks. She assured me that male athletes, particularly Europeans, had got their nails done. This did not make me feel better. Then...
MENTAL FITNESS Another reason to get off the couch: researchers at Duke University Medical Center have shown that moderate aerobic exercise three times a week works as well as Zoloft in lifting clinical depression. What's more, after 10 months only 8% of the exercisers had relapsed into depression, in contrast to 38% of patients on medication and 31% of those who were both exercising and taking medication...