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DIED. Simon Oakland, 61, husky, gravel-voiced character actor; of cancer; in Cathedral City, Calif. Best known as the abrasive psychiatrist who provided tidy Freudian explanations for the murders in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Oakland also starred in three TV series (Toma, The Night Stalker, The Black Sheep Squadron) and portrayed a terminally ill cancer patient in the 1977 Pulitzer-prizewinning Broadway play The Shadow...
...around the family's rites of passage (births, marriages, funerals and death anniversaries) and, for the community, a sequence of colorful, joyful festivals. So popular is Hatsumode, the New Year's visit to local sacred places, that specially installed traffic lights guide millions of worshipers along the gravel paths of the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo...
...demented. Bowie and band locomote through a decade's worth of favorites, from Ziggy Stardust through Young Americans, "Heroes ", and beyond, with an all-pro fervor that is deep into funk and goes very light indeed on the old druggy dolor. Bowie's voice is like pulverized gravel. It can give a strong foundation to a desperate love song like "Heroes," or lead straight and true to the tough core of Fame, with its nervy, insolent last line: "What's your name?" Onstage, he seems taller than his 5 ft. 10 in. because he uses his body like a precision...
...gravel road from Cifuentes to Las Trojes is a pleasant, ordinary scribble between mountains at roadside and a green valley. Peasants pick their way as rickety trucks rumble by. The main thing to interest a foreign visitor on the stretch, a four-hour drive southeast of the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, is that the border with Nicaragua is as little as 20 or 30 yards away. There is a sporadic, undeclared war between the two countries; the proximity can mean "action"-gunfire. Last week that promise of a story drew Reporter Dial Torgerson, 55, of the Los Angeles Times, and Freelance...
...Just after Memorial Day, when a dam of debris in Ward Canyon broke and sent water and mud pouring into Bountiful, ten miles north of Salt Lake City, 1,000 volunteers showed up to help. An additional 500 volunteers a day work in the Midvale gravel pit, where they perform the task of shoveling dirt into sandbags. On weekends the number of volunteers doubles: entire families show...