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...typical Stanley Brothers song, good battles evil, loses and sometimes gets to heaven. Carter died of cancer in 1966, but Ralph still sings his version of the American Gothic. On Ralph Stanley, his first album for T Bone Burnett's DMZ Records, Ralph sings a tune called Mathie Grove, the tale of a husband who took his cheating wife and "cut off her head and kicked it against the wall." The magic is that Ralph has a voice that makes the grotesque sound matter-of-fact. When he sings, he's like a train whistle out of the past...
Pomey, a campus socialite from Vine Grove, Ky. and former producer of the Theatricals’ annual show, infamously french-kissed Anthony Hopkins when he received the Pudding’s Man of the Year award last year. She was president of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta, co-founder of the female social club Isis and selected by Fifteen Minutes, The Crimson’s weekend magazine, as one of Harvard’s 15 most intriguing seniors...
Americans who consider themselves sophisticated about sex may nevertheless be startled by the graphic content of The Sexual Life of Catherine M. (Grove Press; 209 pages). Not to worry. The memoir by Parisian art critic and magazine editor Catherine Millet managed to shock even the French...
...from every state in the union, climbing to the crest of Skyline Road to see what remains of the now legendary Flight 93: absolutely nothing. With the crater long ago filled in, they can only gaze out on a rolling field that protrudes like a bald spot from a grove of hemlocks. "The horror of the event and the beauty of the place are so stark," says Edward Linenthal, the author of The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory, who visited Shanksville in December. "It reminds me of the extermination sites the Nazis built in such magnificently beautiful forests...
...Nick McDonnell, the precocious 18-year-old author of "Twelve" (Grove Atlantic; July), is the son of Terry McDonnell, the managing editor of Sports Illustrated. The author, who is being compared by his publisher to Brett Easton Ellis," has written the story of "the extremely privileged young on the upper east side." The extremely privileged young author is on his way to Harvard in September...