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...looks like a disturbing mixture of Alice Cooper and Danny Zuko. Appearances are often deceiving, but in this instance Walker's countenance is as paradoxical as the refreshing blend of peppy lyrics and heavy riffs of Hey! Album, the major label debut of Marvelous3. The album has a surprisingly crisp sound, despite the apparent dichotomy between the band's power instrumentals and unabashedly poppy lyrics and up-beat vocals. For three guys with names like Butch and Slug who try very hard to look dark and disturbed, their music is often as light as a puffy cumulous cloud. The rhymes...
CLEAN AND GREEN Love crisp, dry-cleaned clothes, but hate that the solvent used to clean them (perchloroethylene) has been deemed a probable carcinogen by the EPA? Hangers, a new chain, uses eco-friendly carbon dioxide instead. The first store opened in Wilmington, N.C., with one each coming to Chicago and Providence, R.I., this month. Retail prices match competitors', but because its machines are expensive, it could be a while before a Hangers opens near...
...Finest. Over a late lunch at the Tick Tock Diner, Detective Ralph Aiello briefed me about his undercover work for Operation Crystal Ball, a crackdown on exploitative fortunetellers. "They're like vultures on the African plain," says Aiello. His boss, Lieutenant Robert Groth, in a sleek blue suit and crisp haircut, puts it simply: "They're professional con artists...
...Mounsey is very aggressive," said Ruggiero, the other Olympic defenseman in the conference. "She is not afraid of stepping in front of forwards, and she doesn't let anyone walk into the slot. If we are going to challenge her, we'll have to move the puck with crisp passes because it's not easy to skate around...
...beaten the clock. The alarm is set for 3:30 a.m., but like a kid before Christmas, she is up and about in her red bathrobe 10 minutes early. Outside, the St. Louis suburb of University City is asleep. But on the Rataj month-at-a-glance calendar, a crisp notation--"B&E: Papal Mass"--dictates an early start. Betty, 50, comes back down the hall with a black suit on and a pin-striped, bleary-eyed corporate lawyer, her husband Ed, in tow. She glows. "I woke up smiling," says the mother of five. "I think this...