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...just one CD but two! His new live version of Friends in Low Places stretches on for almost nine minutes! And, to push Double Live, he's planning one of the most ambitious promotional campaigns of the year! Says Joe Kvidera, general manager of Tower Records in Chicago's Lincoln Park: "He's just so relentless promoting his stuff. It's kind of scary...
...worked on it all summer. The Democrat reminded you of your classic, cheerfully clueless high school principal. Both of them had that tendency common to career politicians of putting their mouths into gear with their minds only partly engaged. They blathered. This made Jesse look like Abe Lincoln...
...Lincoln, Neb., the Tigers (5-2, 3-1) were looking for a miracle catch this time, but couldn't find one as a the Cornhuskers (7-1, 3-1 Big 12) rallied for the win, their 47th in a row at home...
...couple of years ago, everything was girls, girls, girls," says Times Books editor Rapoport. She is referring, of course, to the phenomenal success of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (Ballantine) by Mary Pipher and the many copycat books that followed. Pipher, a clinical psychologist in Lincoln, Neb., argues that many girls lose themselves in adolescence, just as Ophelia, the tragic figure in Shakespeare's Hamlet, did. Popularizing the work of Harvard psychologist Carol Gilligan, Pipher urges the parents of adolescent girls to help their daughters avoid emotional traps like depression, eating disorders and suicide attempts. The book...
...four 90-minute episodes, this documentary attempts to tell the story of slavery from 1619, when a ship carrying a cargo of Africans arrived at Jamestown, to the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. The material is inherently fascinating, and overall the producers have done a fine job of presenting it, combining historical images, impressionistic re-enactments, interviews with historians and voice-over readings of letters and diaries (the narration is spoken by Angela Bassett). If there's a quibble, it's that the re-enactments, done in soft-focus and slow motion, are overused, and one wishes...