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...clutch, or at least a collision, they stop short and back off. Facing close - his hands open to hold her, hers raised to him like a crossing guard's Stop signal - they hop, like adversaries concerned they may be warming to each other. The pace accelerates, and their taps echo the new agitation...
...case seems to echo so many others this year. Two girls--both 13--from the same apartment complex in Oregon City, Ore., were abducted on their way to the bus stop, one in January, one in March. Danielle van Dam, 7, was kidnapped and murdered near San Diego in February. The trial of her alleged killer, a divorced engineer who lives two houses away and had a passing acquaintance with her mother, made parents mentally check their own vigilance. And bizarrely, even as police and volunteers searched frantically on Wednesday for Elizabeth, an eerily similar drama was unfolding 210 miles...
Most Brit rock acts have become so consumed with burying their melodies that they forget to compose them. Thank you, Radiohead. Doves, a Manchester trio, is a pleasant exception, a band that actually enjoys its own tunefulness. Yes, there are echo effects, abrupt tempo changes and a few melancholy lyrics--how else would we know this is contemporary rock from England?--but songs such as There Goes the Fear, M62 Song and N.Y. reveal a sweet pop soul that is more Beatles than brooding...
Those who have been close to Prescott over the years echo her view of the late 1970s as the turning point in her life...
...previous album, 1998's brooding The Globe Sessions, the balance between sullen and saucy got out of whack. Here Crow tries to set things right by not bumming anybody out. Starting with the exuberant Steve McQueen, she launches into a relentless pursuit of good times and an echo of her first hit, singing, "I want to rock and roll this party/ I still wanna have some fun." When the chorus arrives, backup singers make a Hoo-hoo! train-whistle sound. Steve Miller is smiling somewhere...