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...this mean a return to musical authenticity after years of prefab pop acts? Perhaps--at least, there's hope for bands that actually record their own music--but don't expect a return of the grunge era's rejection of rock-star pomp and artifice (or its embrace of flannel). From the spiked bracelets and studded belts of runway fashion to the recent reappearance of Motley Crue's Tommy Lee on the cover of Rolling Stone, there's a creeping nostalgia in pop culture for the old-fashioned rock-star myth in all its showboaty, leather-pantsed glory...
Timothy McVeigh and the nation he attacked share one belief: you strike your blow at the moment that it sends the most resounding message. McVeigh detonated his bomb outside an Oklahoma City federal office building, with a gray-flannel salaryman's punctuality, on a workday morning at 9:02 a.m. This Monday, another workday morning, he is scheduled to die by lethal injection in Terre Haute, Ind., promptly at 8:00 a.m. ET - smack in the middle of prime time for the three network morning shows...
CONVICTED. JULIE PONDER, 40, and CONNELL WATKINS, 54; of reckless child abuse; in Golden, Colo. The two therapists had led the "rebirthing" session of Candace Newmaker, 10, which involved wrapping the girl in a flannel sheet and forcing her to emerge from it. Though the child repeatedly cried for help, she was not released and died of asphyxiation...
...their lives is a gradual process. However, when Dion wills his own life to his friend-turned-rival, a metaphysical shift allows Billy to simultaneously become both Billy and Dion. This is where McClelland truly shines. Stripping out of a fatsuit to don a black tanktop and a plaid flannel shirt, he slides effortlessly into the dual role. The poignancy of Billy’s love for Margaret, and her own rekindling of the love that could have been is heartrending. The tightrope walk between two very different lives soon becomes untenable, and Billy must relinquish one to continue...
...anyway, take her and Colby away, and what have you got? A clear victory for the old-folks alliance, age trumping beauty, with Elisabeth hitching a ride on Rodger's frayed flannel coattails. Sure, Keith and Tina can brave the midnight rapids to retrieve the rice canister that was washed away in the storm (even if Keith - doh! - had the matches in his pocket the whole time). And they're clearly the tightest mini-alliance, having bonded over being stuck in the cultural no-man's-land between young-and-beautiful and old-and-cuddly. (Besides, I suspect Elisabeth...