Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Often the coroner is a funeral-home director and sometimes even a tow-truck operator, whose primary ability is transporting bodies. The coroner frequently hires hospital pathologists to do the autopsy. Those unfamiliar with signs of violence may confuse gunshot entrance and exit wounds or may be unable to tell whether a fractured skull was caused by a fall or a blow. Or they may ignore important evidence, such as the contents of a victim's stomach or hairs and fibers left on clothing or skin...
...BODEANS: HOME (Slash/Reprise). Brand New is the title of one of this album's best cuts, but BoDeans fans will be cheered to know that the band's still doing what it has always done best: focused, aggressive rock that doesn't stint on spirit...
...JACKSONS: 2300 JACKSON STREET (Epic). Remember the address if you want to crash a party without leaving home. The Jacksons make hot soul but deliver it nice and cool...
Screen dreams are strangest and strongest when they hit close to home. In Terence Davies' searing memoir of his working-class family in Liverpool 30 and 40 years ago, mystery resides in the vision of his mother, magically poised on the hall sill, washing the outside windows ("Don't fall, Mom. Please don't fall"). Laughter erupts from three colleens parodying a Nat King Cole hit ("They tried to sell us egg foo yung"). The recollected terror of a vicious father can be tempered by his early death. The daughter who vowed, "If I ever...
Hijuelos returns the courtesy by giving Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball guest spots in his novel, as celebrities who descend like deities for a potluck supper in the modest home of ordinary mortals. Arnaz turns out to be a sweetheart who eats second helpings, drinks heartily and sings Babalu long into the evening. Ball has good manners and a considerate way of peeking at her watch...