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...what catches the ear of any diva devotee is Twain's easy virtuosity. Attend to her reading of this verse: "Any man of mine'll say it fits just right/ When last year's dress is just a little too tight/ And anything I do or say, that'll be O.K./ When I have a bad hair day." The throaty intimacy, the smart selling of each phrase, the whisper of lightly ironic girl talk in "just a little too tight," the clear but not prissy enunciation--these are signs of a true storyteller in song. And since she delivers...
...stating that while shopping she often had to help others read food labels. She said that half a million of the state's residents are functionally illiterate; according to the Department of Education, only 200,000 fit that description. Her typical all-black attire, along with ponytail and multiple ear ornaments, seemed quite un-first ladylike...
Haden first caught Jones on recordings, playing behind Parker. Haden had worked up a keen ear for all kinds of music from early on. His parents were country musicians who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry and started their boy performing at age four. Some Sundays in Springfield, Missouri, Haden's mother would take him on outings to the African-American church. "We would quietly go in the door after everybody and sit in the back and listen to the music," he says. "That was one of the most moving experiences of my young life...
...bring extensive snow gear. Gloves, hats with ear flaps, duck boots, earmuffs, snow-shoes, scarves, parkas--the whole works. When it stops raining, it snows here. A lot. If you don't know how to walk on ice, you will learn...
RECOVERING. WHITEY FORD, 66, retired baseball great; from cancer; on Long Island, New York. The Yankee Hall of Fame pitcher revealed he'd had a cancerous tumor removed from behind his left ear last December in an eight-hour operation. He has been receiving radiation treatment...