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DIED. Art Pepper, 56, gifted but tortured jazz musician who established himself as a top alto saxophonist with the Stan Kenton orchestra in the late 1940s and early 1950s and for years waged a war against his drug habit, which he detailed in his 1979 autobiography, Straight Life; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. He once said of his reliance on heroin to relieve his anguish and self-doubt: "If this is what it takes, then this is what I'm going to do, whatever dues I have to pay." During one 16-year period, he marked more time...
...never to say never. I've got in too many difficulties when I let my mind rule my heart. I've learned to do what my emotions tell me. Rocky came out of nowhere like that. I just went with my feelings." Going for it is a habit Stallone may never break...
...have been part of Sunday night's Tony Awards on CBS, but when network censors took in A Call from the Vatican, they said sorry, wrong number. The replacement song, Be Italian, puts Anita into attire more in keeping with Sunday-night fare: a nun's habit...
...meeting with Governor Reagan in 1972 left me with a favorable impression. I had never before met a person who, if he was not knowledgeable on a subject, said so explicitly, without hiding behind phrases devoid of content. President Reagan should maintain this habit and oblige his fellow leaders to be precise and concrete...
...Habit of Being,by Flannery O'Connor...