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Hearing that an expressway was to pass close by, they bought another house last September and put the old homestead on the market. But they quickly repented. "That is where half my life has been spent," he says, "and where my various pets are buried. Everything kind of spreads out from there." Now the new house is for sale, and he and Merula are comforting themselves with a wry, Guinness-style logic: "We're going to be so old and blind and deaf by the time the road gets there that maybe we won't notice it." Old age seems...
...oldest document in the exhibition is a 1775 proclamation by King George III urging the colonies to engage in "Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition." Other graphic entreaties were more persuasive. One from 1880 exhorts settlers to move into "Indian Territory, That Garden of the World, Open for Homestead." A health campaign from the 1940s warns, "Syphilis Keep Out!" Meanwhile, another broadside urges Americans to eat a balanced diet to "Make America Strong...
...Racer-X (Homestead Records) by Big Black: Guitarist and vocalist Steve Albini grew up in Middle America and now he's out to revenge himself on that particular bit of real estate. Big Black is the most violent, yet also the most listenable group of Homestead's recent post-punk crop. Both the songs--especially "The Ugly American"--and the liner notes show a sense of humor long gone from most rock and roll. This EP certainly beats Bing Crosby fists down: a must for anyone who burns Norman Rockwell paintings in his spare time...
...radio signals from the parachuted cargo. The plane crashes when it runs out of fuel. The loss of a $500,000 plane is a modest sacrifice when compared with the tens of millions the cocaine can bring. Roger Garland, operations supervisor of the U.S. Customs Air Branch based at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, once tracked a plane with no one in it for 40 miles until it splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico. "There's a load of unguided missiles in the night sky," he says. "We've been lucky thus far that none of these pilotless...
...wind and water gathered force, however, Yakub Ali knew that something ominous was on the way. Hurrying back to his homestead, he awoke his wife, his ten-year-old son and his younger brother and urged them to come along to Urirchar's only concrete building, a two-story Forestry Department complex a little more than half a mile away. By then the tide had begun to rise. Yakub and his family started running; all around them people were racing for safety...