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...G.I.s stationed in Germany. He fronted a fine Beatles-era band called Them, then went solo and traveled to America. There he flirted with the mainstream before recording Astral Weeks in 1969, an album that set what was to be, for him, a more or less unvarying pattern: wild record, wild-eyed reviews, loyal but limited audience. Since then, he has wandered in the U.S., England and Ireland (where he now lives) but has never had a commercial breakthrough commensurate with his talent...
...divided psychological and legal circles. "By and large, long-term memory is extremely credible," maintains Jill Otey, a Portland, Ore., attorney whose office receives five calls a week from women saying they have suddenly remembered childhood abuse. "I find it highly unlikely that someone who can remember what pattern was on the wallpaper and that a duck was quacking outside the bedroom window where she was molested by her father when she was four years old is making it up. Why in the hell would your mind do this?" Reflecting that faith, at least a dozen states since 1988 have...
...Everything she does has to be planned. When we go shopping, she always knows exactly what she's shopping for--pants in a neutral pattern...a low cut spandex top for going out," says Ellie Grossman '95, who has been a friend of Finkelstein's since first grade...
...doesn't bother me. It means I get my work done. I don't think of it as a derogatory term," says Fritschel, though she prefers to describe her set pattern of pre-bedtime activities as "a habitual ritual...
Fickle buying habits have left executives scratching their heads. "There is this very erratic pattern," notes Harold Poling, chairman of Ford, whose restyled Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable models have been slow to roll off new- car lots. "Dealers will have a positive week, then one when nothing happens. It looks like a long, drawn-out and weak time ahead...