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Black and Brooks, along with such kindred voices as Vince Gill, Alan Jackson and Travis, are part of a kind of neoconservative musical move back to country basics. No outlaw image or firebrand tunes for these folks. They lay down melodies with a light country swing and a tinge of melancholy. They sing bedrock sentiments about home and hearth, loneliness and heartbreak and getting done in by the big time in the big city. "I consider myself % traditional," Black says. "And I'm new, so if I had to call myself something, it would be 'new traditionalist...
...could have lay down and said, `Okay, go ahead,'" Caples said...
Hochstein is a whiz on our Apple Macintosh computer design system. After he and designer Leah Purcell have received a cover image, they can lay it out and display it in minutes, vs. hours only a few years ago. Then, thanks to the technology, they can try numerous variations on the image and the text. They have even created entire covers on the Mac. One recent example: "Starting Over," for a story on the end of the Communist Party's monopoly on power in the Soviet Union. It juxtaposed a photograph of Mikhail Gorbachev with an archival picture of Lenin...
...characterized Iraq's adventuring as the "most horrible aggression the Arab nation has known in its modern history," faced a Hobson's choice: he could go it alone, leaving his small and scattered army to answer Iraq's battle-hardened troops, or he could call in the U.S. and lay bare his ties. Courageous as Westerners find him, Fahd can hardly dispute Saddam's < charge: "The joint policy with the foreigner has become exposed...
...other means of delivering a devastating counterattack. Strategic B-52 and B-1 bombers based in the U.S. and on Diego Garcia could lay down carpets of high explosives on Iraqi targets. They would be supported by F-14 interceptors and attack planes from the U.S. carriers in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Those ships are more than 600 miles from Iraq, out of range of Iraqi jets and Exocet missiles, which in 1987 badly damaged the patrolling frigate U.S.S. Stark, apparently accidentally, and killed 37 of its crew. The carrier-based planes would be refueled...