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...energy. Schubert wrote the score for last year's A Little Knife Music; this year's score seems far the better--more memorable tunes, more intricate ensemble writing, and a generally more subtle, less showy approach. His references are, well, eclectic--there are snatches of Brahms, the Beach Boys, Herb Alpert, and Scott Joplin mixed in with Schubert's own tunes...
ZOBELS DROP DEAD, said the mildest of several bumper stickers that blossomed around the state. The couple was reviled on talk shows and received hate mail, bomb threats and late-night nuisance calls. After KIMO-TV Commentator Herb Shaindlin learned that Patricia, 32, was pregnant, he told his audience: "It's nice to know that Ron is doing to her what he's been doing to the rest of us." Says Patricia, who works for a highly regarded local firm: "People are so hateful without really knowing me. It affects everything I do, from writing checks...
...Herb A. Heddin, who will graduate from the K-School in June, said yesterday that the job requirements Pecinovsky outlines--which sometimes require "extensive travel"--dissuaded many students, including himself, from applying. "A lot of people were just satisfying their curiosity" by attending the sessions, he said...
...windshield meets dashboard. Its title, Invade My Privacy, is fading fast in the sun. The auto's left rear fender sports an elaborate decal -- Blue Valentine -- the very same left rear fender emblazoned on the cover of Waits' thusly titled 1978 album. As Waits comments later, sitting in manager Herb Cohen's cloistered offices, "I couldn't afford a billboard, so I wrote...
...fall, rumors circled the Hollywood hot air mills purporting that Waits had returned from France a changed man. One story went so far as to suggest he had shed his thrift shop threads for Giorgio Armani suits and a clean-shaven, manicured Continental haute couture. Sitting in one of Herb Cohen's small offices and backdropped by a fountain and Spanish courtyard, Waits needn't have inquired "Giorgio who?" to debunk that fiction. One look was enough: pointed black shoes (leather cracked), tight, wrinkled straight black pants, a haphazardly-buttoned off-white white shirt, his goatee more under his chin...