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This success is due chiefly to the rich, seductive vocals of Linda Hopper and Lynda Stipe. Whether they are reciting rhymes like "One-two buckle my shoes" in flat monotone, or creating beautiful, dark harmonies in "Choukoutien" and "Elaine's Song", Hopper and Stipe manage to embrace both the earthy and unearthly, without sounding arch or immature...
Kevin D. Paulson Loma Linda, Calif...
...trademarks used to be hot pants and hard rock, but these days Linda Ronstadt, 37, is more comfortable with organza and lush orchestras. "I've always been eclectic in my tastes," says the Arizona-born singer. Last week she would have done any 40s prom proud at the World's Fair in New Orleans as she kicked off a nationwide concert tour that will feature a full orchestra conducted by mainstream Maestro Nelson Riddle, 63. Ronstadt's fondness for retro chic is getting to be longstanding. In 1980 she reached back to Gilbert & Sullivan when...
...child abuse. There were reports from former church members that babies less than six months old were hit with wooden rods. One 13-year-old girl was said to have been beaten for eight hours, until her body was covered with welts, as punishment for telling a lie. Said Linda Schneider, a former church member: "A child would cry, and they would beat him with a rod until he was 'obedient.' That was their favorite word...
Milestones' current crafter is Sara Collins Medina, a staff writer for the past 3½ years. She is assisted by Reporter-Researcher Linda Young. Says Medina: "The process of sifting out an individual's achievements involves assimilating vast amounts of material, then compacting it to the density of poetry. The column also provides the world's most comprehensive education in the creative use of the semicolon...