Word: mick
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Just in time for those lonely eves when Chelsea's away, good news for Bill Clinton. Mick Fleetwood and the classic Rumours lineup of Fleetwood Mac are back. The band has signed with Reprise and will tour. This makes the Partridge Family and the Nixon Cabinet the only two groups from that era that have not reunited...
...Mick Countee sensed the emptiness because after he broke his neck in a diving accident, while he was a Harvard student, his mother told him, "Son, if Franklin Roosevelt could be President, you can finish your education." Countee, a black, not only finished but also went on to get a law degree from Georgetown and an M.B.A. from Harvard. "Not a day went by," he said last week, "that I did not think of Roosevelt and Roy Campanella." Campanella was the Brooklyn Dodgers catcher who was paralyzed in a car accident but never despaired in public...
...exams for Oxford in 1972, where he showed little interest in politics. He studied law, but is remembered most for his gyrating performances as bass guitarist and lead singer in a rock band called the Ugly Rumours. With his full mouth and toothy grin, Blair looked a bit like Mick Jagger and managed a passable rendition of Honky Tonk Woman. On Sundays, however, he attended services in the chapel and became a committed Christian...
...pretty sure that Nostradamus predicted a premillennial Hollywood plague of natural-disaster movies. Last year Twister; this fall The Flood. In February, Dante's Peak sent small-town folk scurrying from their local Vesuvius; now Mick Jackson's Volcano has man tamper in God's domain--by daring to build a subway in L.A. The script, by Jerome Armstrong and Billy Ray, thus exploits two major fears of Angelenos: getting demolished by a horrid subterranean force, and having to take public transportation...
MOVIES . . . VOLCANO: "We're pretty sure that Nostradamus predicted a pre-millennial Hollywood plague of natural-disaster movies," says TIME's Richard Corliss. Last year, 'Twister;' this fall, 'The Flood.' In February, 'Dante?s Peak' sent small-town folk scurrying from their local Vesuvius; now Mick Jackson?s 'Volcano' has man tamper in God?s domain, by daring to build a subway in L.A. "The script," Corliss notes, "thus exploits two major fears of Angelenos: getting demolished by a horrid subterranean force, and having to take public transportation. The gookum-like lava is less smothering than the plot clich?s...