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...meant a lot to him, and he wanted to showus the right way to live. That was his passion,"Mark Weisenmiller said...
...that's the challenge: maintaining that fire, knowing that the sacrifice is different now; it's not just you. But I'm a fighter, and I want my son to be a fighter. I want him to be comfortable, but I don't want to lose my fire and passion...
That's one reason people listen to hip-hop: they want that fire, that passion. And right now, to paraphrase hip-hop folkie Beck, rap is where it's at. In 1995 rap albums accounted for just 6.7% of all music sales; through the first half of this year that figure has risen to 10.3%. By contrast, over the same period, rock's market share fell, from 33.5% to 28%. In their new book It's Not Only Rock & Roll: Popular Music in the Lives of Adolescents (Hampton Press), Peter G. Christenson and Donald F. Roberts declare that today...
This put him in conflict with his coach, the almost equally legendary Bill Bowerman (Sutherland), no mean athletic aesthetician himself. He's presented as a more forgiving and gently eccentric kind of obsessive, disapproving of his pupil's stubborn individuality but also watchfully guarding a passion for excellence that matches his own. Theirs is a marvelously subtle wrangle: Prefontaine ran Bowerman's race in the 5,000 m at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and was beaten; but it was Bowerman who brought him back from self-pity (and maybe self-destruction) and onto the comeback trail before Prefontaine was killed...
DIED. FREDERICK REINES, 80, Nobel-prizewinning scientist known as the father of neutrino physics; in Orange, Calif. Undeterred by skeptics who doubted the invisible neutrino's existence, Reines persevered, often locking himself for hours in his lab, where he could be heard indulging his other great passion: singing opera...