Word: fendered
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DIED. Freddy Fender, 69, three-time Grammy winner who began his career as "El Bebop Kid," singing Elvis songs in Spanish, and in 1975 topped the pop and country charts with Before the Next Teardrop Falls; of lung cancer; in Corpus Christi, Texas. Born Baldemar Huerta to migrant parents in South Texas, he based his stage name on the brand of his guitar and later joined two critically acclaimed Tex-Mex bands, the Texas Tornados and Los Super Seven...
Some parents are ambivalent about the law and are not convinced that the restrictions should apply to their children. Becky Jeffries of Las Vegas, whose daughter Kristilyn, 17, had three fender benders in the first year she was licensed, doubts that enforcing the 10 p.m. curfew will keep her daughter any safer. "She's not going to get any better by being held back. She might as well be in control of her own destiny," Becky says...
...standard exercise in macho auto-eroticism, but with extra horsepower. Malaysian punks race their souped-up cars on the public highways of the country?s capital - sort of The Fast and the Kuala Lumpurious. But it also interweaves three stories, making it a Crash with lots more fender-benders, and all in 79 zippy minutes. There?s also a scene in which a kidnapper rapes a sweet Muslim wife while her child?s in the room. No fatwas, please...
...room. One episode showed him appearing to be kicked out of a cab after browbeating the driver. Really, Baker says, the driver had an accident and couldn't continue. "I got the worst rap of anyone in reality television ever," Baker says. CBS spokesman Chris Ender replies that the fender bender was not bad enough to disable the cab. "Although Jonathan may have had softer moments," he says, "what was captured on film during the broadcasts accurately represents his behavior...
...DIED. TONY MEEHAN, 62, founding member of hit pop band the Shadows; of head injuries sustained in a fall; in London. Seizing on teenagers' infatuation with U.S. rock 'n' roll in the late '50s and early '60s, the Shadows dressed in shiny suits, toted red Fender Stratocaster guitars and danced a uniquely British three-step shimmy into the charts with songs such as Apache and Kon Tiki. As the backing band for Cliff Richard, they had other hits including Living Doll and Travellin' Light...