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REBEL COUNTRY musicians have not had an easy time of it (see the Dixie Chicks), but their path to acceptance was eased immeasurably by radio pioneer Laura Ellen Hopper. In 1975 Hopper co-founded the cultish, eclectic, now defunct California station KFAT, still widely revered for its rejection of the conservative country establishment and its support of quirky artists from John Prine to Jerry Jeff Walker. Those and newer stars like Iris DeMent got a bigger push at her more successful second home, KPIG, where as founder and program director she promoted and popularized the alternative country sound of Americana...
...came to the plate with the chance to deliver the decisive blow, but went down on three straight fastballs. However, freshman Melissa Schellberg earned a five-pitch walk to load the bases for fellow rookie Jennifer Francis with two outs. After working a full count, Francis lined a one-hopper to second baseman Laura Jaxheimer, who booted the grounder, sending Krysiak and Kidder home.Madick recorded her first two outs of the seventh inning on an unlikely 5-4-7 double play. Jaxheimer moved Dreslinski, who had reached on a leadoff single, to second with a sacrifice bunt. But Dreslinski, seeing...
...aboard. Murphy came to the plate with the chance to deliver the decisive blow, but went down on three straight fastballs. However, freshman Melissa Schellberg earned a five-pitch walk to load the bases for Jennifer Francis with two outs. After working a full count, Francis lined a one-hopper to second baseman Laura Jaxheimer, who booted the grounder, sending Krysiak and Kidder home...
...Congratulations! You managed to achieve the virtually impossible. You miraculously failed to mention Dennis Hopper-the consummate film personification of evil. Have Corliss and colleagues never seen Hopper's character portrayals in Blue Velvet, Paris Trout and Speed? Edward J. Spires, Rochester, New York...
...Hopper once said his goal as a painter was to achieve "the greatest possible austerity without the loss of emotion." He might have added that the emotion would be a dry-eyed and somewhat mysterious melancholy. And that this would be a part of the national mood we would recognize as soon as we saw it. Even if we didn't know quite what to make...