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MUSIC Lyle Lovett's new album is as gaunt...
...Joshua Judges Ruth, the weirdness is harder to laugh off. The lyrics are gaunt and elusive, the melodies so familiar as to be generic, the arrangements as spare and naked as the sentiments. The album's intertwined themes are keyed in its title: three books from the Old Testament -- the all-time best seller of wrath and reconciliation -- that pun on a man's need to pass stern judgment on women...
...YEARS AGO: TURNING POINT. Having surrendered to the Japanese, 72,000 gaunt, exhausted U.S. and Filipino troops marched to prison camps on the Bataan peninsula in April 1942. Malnourished and subjected to repeated beatings, 10,000 men died en route. Days after the Bataan Death March began, the tide started to shift for Allied forces. On April 18, 1942, Lieut. Colonel James Doolittle staged a daring aerial raid on Tokyo. Last week surviving raiders gathered in Columbia, S.C., for an annual tribute to the six Americans who died as a result of the attack...
...lulling you before he sets off a firecracker -- Whango! -- right in your ear. This time his explosive is one of them mysterious strangers who sneaks into Castle Rock, Maine, scene of two other King features, Cujo and The Dead Zone. This stranger is called Leland Gaunt, and he's proprietor of the new Needful Things curiosity shop. First customer: 11-year-old Brian Rusk. The item: an autographed Sandy Koufax baseball card. The price: his soul. Whango...
Well, you wouldn't recognize the Rock once Gaunt sinks his teeth into it. The quiet little town where people drive Yugos and natter about Demi Moore turns into one hell of a burg. That's because the residents just can't stay away from needful things, buying stuff like folk medicine that mysteriously cures pain and cars that drive on no gas at all and just about anything else that can tempt greedy souls to trade away their most precious possession...