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...first some New Yorkers feared terrorism or a random killer. But by Wednesday evening, when police arrested Michael Stevens, 53, and Earl Figley, 56, the grudge began to seem very specific. Stevens' girlfriend is a woman named Brenda Lazore Chevere. The injured William Lazore is her uncle; the dead included her mother, her stepfather and her sister -- all apparently victims of a man they seem to have ostracized...
...however, Zappa fused two seemingly irreconcilable 20th century musical strains; his masterpiece, Absolutely Free (1967), is a dazzling merger of Stravinsky and Varese with rock and rhythm and blues. Who else would have thought to counterpoint the Berceuse from Stravinsky's Firebird with the doo-wop of Duke of Earl on a song called The Duke of Prunes? To quote The Rite of Spring and Petrouchka as a prelude to some of the hardest-charging, straight-ahead rock of the era? To use Varese's musique concrete, which alters conventionally produced sounds to create an electronic effect, in a paean...
...American Academy of Pediatrics has called for a total gun ban; the American Medical Association wants to ban hollow-point bullets and raise taxes on gun sales. "Surgeons have been removing bullets since the invention of gunpowder," observes Franklin Zimring, a professor of law and director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, "but this is the first time you find a professional constituency like that involved in changing policy toward guns...
...rivalries still exist. The problem is the players aren't as good--so who really cares. Acie Earl squaring off against Vlade Divac doesn't conjure up images of Parish against Kareem, or Russell against Chamberlain in the twilight of their careers...
Often after Johnson won his way over someone, he would tell the story to others with relish, burnishing and enlarging the tale as he went. He did that in another call to Senator Russell relating how he had persuaded Chief Justice Earl Warren to chair the assassination commission. "You know what happened? Bobby ((Kennedy)) and them went up to see ((Warren)) today, and he turned them down cold and said no. Two hours later, I called him and ordered him down here, and he didn't want to come, and I insisted he come. He came down here...