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...hint of panic hidden in their almost predictable musical passages, almost as if Amos frightened herself with the inaccessibility of "Pele" and is holding back to be accepted by the mainstream music scene again. But for the most part, the album stands up as listenable (think "Tori Amos Lite"), with passages that are doomed to be caught in one's head for hours at a time--which is definitely not a bad thing...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Here's A Red Hot Redhead | 7/2/1998 | See Source »

...points though, one might wonder where the emotional supernovas are in from the choirgirl hotel. Boys for Pele had the mesmerizing "Caught a Lite Sneeze;" Under the Pink contained the scandalous "God;" and of course, Little Earthquakes remains a virtual apocalypse of emotion, despite the recent trends of radio stations to overplay "Silent All These Years." Is Tori Amos finally starting to make peace with the demons that drove her to create painfully honest pieces such as Earthquake's "Me and a Gun," which was based on her experience with rape? If she is, are her musical talents strong enough...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Here's A Red Hot Redhead | 7/2/1998 | See Source »

...commonly thought that by the time the Beatles arrived in the U.S., rock-'n'-roll music, an uproarious sound forged by such pioneers as Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Elvis Presley, had all but died out, leaving the charts littered with such unconvincing rock-lite commodities as Frankie Avalon, Bobby Rydell and Chubby Checker. This is not entirely true. Although Presley had been drafted into the army in 1958 (and was never quite the same after he got out), and Buddy Holly had been killed in a plane crash in 1959, and Berry, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rock Musicians THE BEATLES | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...MARTINO Frank Lite. Known less for his singing [2] than for playing Johnny Fontaine, the Sinatra-inspired character in The Godfather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 25, 1998 | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

Animal Kingdom tries to preserve wildlife while making it part of the show. The Conservation Station provides an education lite on wildlife and rain forests and has an animal E.R. that shows surgeons at work on, say, a macaw's anus. Keeping the animals healthy is the evocatively named Peregrine Wolff, 39, director of veterinary services. Importing 1,000 animals to central Florida (mostly from zoos and wildlife centers) has been an education for everyone. "The mammals are trained to come in at night," says Wolff. "Do they always? No. The white rhinos went on a five-day love feast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Beauty and the Beasts | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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