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...switched gears and released Pop Pop, a glossy collection of covers and old standards that showed a heartfelt respect for tradition but lacked the offbeat charm of her own material. On Traffic from Paradise, Jones gets personal again, delivering a set of original songs that evoke a familiar gallery of saintly sinners and handsome devils. Low-key and instrumentally sparse, the album has a hushed sound that highlights Jones' elastic vocals and free-wheeling lyrics, which never flinch from unpleasant truths. The meditative tone is set on Pink Flamingos, which describes the denizens of a bar in terms that suggest...
...column ''Pulling the Plug'' ((THE POLITICAL INTEREST, Oct. 4)) of a medical bill for Hugh Rodham. Kramer writes that Hillary Rodham Clinton's 82-year-old father spent the last three weeks of his life in St. Vincent's Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas, and quotes a physician familiar with Rodham's case as saying, ''He would normally have been discharged after a week because that's all the treatment Medicare would cover for someone in his condition, but he stayed on because of who he was. The hospital ate the bill for about $10,000.'' Helen L. Scanlan...
...skill; here, it's a way of life, and darting in and out of the opposite lane is not at all unusual. And of course, I'm constantly reminded how far away from home I am when I can only understand pieces of conversation and see signs with familiar pictures of hot dogs and swimsuits but with unfamiliar text...
...days after a spectacular win in the first major mountain stage of this year's Tour, the 24-year-old climbing specialist tested positive for the banned blood booster erythropoietin (EPO), French anti-doping agency officials told reporters. French police immediately took Riccò into custody, as the now familiar scene of chaos erupted, with photographers and name-calling fans swarming around his Saunier Duval team's yellow bus. The entire Spanish team subsequently pulled out of the competition before Thursday's start of stage...
...getting to be a familiar ritual. Markets panic. A bunch of G-men in dark suits interrupt their routines for an emergency meeting or a conference call to piece together a rescue plan. They announce the plan. Panic subsides. Then, a week to a couple of months later, it starts all over again...