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...story begins calmly enough, on a short, shady street in Baltimore in the mid-1960s. There live Doug and Dee Bedloe, he a high school math teacher, she a homemaker. Their eldest child, Claudia, has dropped out of college to marry and bear a succession of babies; Danny, the middle Bedloe, has graduated from high school and now works at the post office; Ian, the youngest, is in the 11th grade and a promising pitcher on the baseball team. "There was this about the Bedloes," Tyler writes. "They believed that every part of their lives was absolutely wonderful. It wasn...
...Rumble dee, rumble dum, Democrats aren't going to come," sang the Fool, doing a little dance step...
...Harlem and Bensonhurst in Brooklyn. The animosities are mirrored in two subplots. Angie's sweet, nerdy friend Paulie (John Turturro) pursues a romance with a classy black woman (Tyra Ferrell). And Flipper's crackhead brother (Samuel L. Jackson) collides with his Bible- bred parents (Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee...
...female rappers are creating buoyant messages that transcend the inert boasting so common in male rap. Salt-N-Pepa may have found the most satisfying and successful musical formula yet. Salt (Cheryl James), Pepa (Sandy Denton) and Spinderella (Dee Dee Roper), who met while working in a Sears department store in 1985, punctuate soul-tinged R.-and-B. melodies with teasing, street-savvy raps about maturity, independence from men and sexual responsibility. In 1988 Salt-N-Pepa, one of the first rap groups to cross over into pop radio, released a single, Push It, that sold more than 1 million...
Last October, Sterling broke some bad news to another dentist, Glover Rowe of Gadsden, Ala., and his wife Dee. Tests showed that unless they signed up for auditing, Glover's practice would fail, and Dee would someday abuse their child. The next month the Rowes flew to Glendale, Calif., where they shuttled daily from a local hotel to a Dianetics center. "We thought they were brilliant people because they seemed to know so much about us," recalls Dee. "Then we realized our hotel room must have been bugged." After bolting from the center, $23,000 poorer, the Rowes say, they...