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Ball of Fire is subtitled The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball. Kanfer does well by the tumultuous life, dishing with relish such anecdotes as the time Joan Crawford was a guest on The Lucy Show and declared that Ball "could 'outbitch' her any day of the week." But as for the comic art, he's short on insight, he offers little cultural context, and his one original explanation for I Love Lucy's enduring success is just weird: people love it because it is in black and white. "There is something incompatible," Kanfer writes, "about humor...
SUPERHONEY. Combining the sounds of 60s soul and light rock, singer Joan Pimentel delivers stylized vocals that got her the nomination for Best Female Vocalist at the Boston Music Awards three years in a row. The funky trio has performed with the likes of George Clinton, among other greats, and their acclaim as a great undiscovered band suggests they may not remain undiscovered for long. Amusia warms up the stage. Saturday, August 16 at 9 p.m. $11. The House of Blues, 96 Winthrop...
...lives the semblance of drama. They want to believe the husband, because he speaks with such fiery protectiveness. They want to believe Signora Frola, because she was the first to speak, and because she clucks with such matronly concern over her daughter and her son-in-law, and because Joan Plowright invests her with such easy dignity. In fact, there are no facts, just testimony. As Laudisi, the one skeptic ion the crowd, says, "Oh please! What can you learn from facts? ... What on earth can we ever know about anyone else? Do you think we know, really know...
...girls will have no problem wearing bikinis. The scar will not be seen." Joan Thong, Singaporean doctor who led the operating team that separated four-month-old conjoined twins from Korea...
...forms in commercial quantities and encourages production from a mix of existing energy sources. But none of this will be worth the effort unless the U.S. sticks with a plan long enough for it to pay off. --With reporting by Laura Karmatz/New York and Eric Roston/Washington, with research by Joan Levinstein/New York