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...have Mark's street address, as all he'd given anyone was his post office box, but I remembered him telling me at one point that he worked in a health food store. Unfortunately, there were no health food stores on the main street of the working-class ghost-town of Ayer. So, I stopped into the next logical place--a liquor store. Have you seen this man? I asked the clerk, flashing my picture. He hadn't, but he did have a phone book, so I jotted down all the health food store phone numbers in the area...
With eight albums under its belt and a ninth, the fine Story of the Ghost (Elektra), coming out later this month, Phish seems on the verge of breaking into the mainstream. Phish's musical essence resides more in its live shows than its discs. The band's concerts are known for their peaceable vibes and grand scale (one show drew 135,000) as well as for marathon, free-floating jams that range across rock, jazz, blues and whatever inspiration the moment brings. Songs gather into easy crescendos that encourage audience self-discovery rather than catharsis. For Ghost the band culled...
...bones is what Thomas Hardy supposedly deemed even "the most brilliantly drawn character in a novel." Mike Noonan has been unable to find his bag since his wife's death left him with a nasty case of writer's block. His nights are haunted by her ghost and visions of Sara Laughs, his summer home named after a "Negro" singer from the 1900s. Mike returns to that home to confront its secrets. An exorcism is in order, but that task is interrupted by Mike's battle to save a leggy blonde and her daughter from a ludicrously evil duo. Alas...
...surprisingly, one might think, with spending still near cold war levels) that the number of warriors in U.S. fighting forces--Army maneuver battalions, Navy ships and Air Force planes--has dropped nearly half over the past decade. And some surviving units, according to audits earlier this year, are "ghost squads," without a single soldier assigned to them...
...from the Sweet Home plantation. She had been defiled by the master's sons, then beaten so artistically that her back remains latticed with scars. Now Sethe lives with her teenage daughter Denver (Kimberly Elise) at 124 Bluestone Road--a house that jitters and glows red with the rambunctious ghost of Beloved...