Word: pattie
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DIED. MAXENE ANDREWS, 79, singer; in Hyannis, Massachusetts. Reduce World War II to three voices, and the choices are obvious: the rant of Hitler, the rumble of Churchill . and the single, seamless sound blended from the warble of the Andrews Sisters: Maxene, Patti and LaVerne. The trio first flew up the charts with 1937's bilingual Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, a Yiddish ditty infused with the giddy, jivey spirit that followed G.I.s around the globe. Wartime hits included Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (1941) and Rum and Coca-Cola (1944). The 1967 death of LaVerne ended the Andrews Sisters' career...
...words "not guilty" sounded, as an uncertain smile flickered across Simpson's face, the watchers were frozen--until Marcia Clark's assistant Patti Jo Fairbanks leapt from her chair. "Oh, God, I gotta get the families up here," she cried. Her sudden movement set the others talking or crying like a lot of windup toys. Bruce Jenner stared at the screen, muttering, "You got away with murder, you got away with murder" over and over. Deputy district attorney Yochelson blocked the television, saying to the group, "I want to tell all of you that we did the best we could...
...Patti Smith Group broke up in 1979 and Smith spent the '80s raising a family, releasing only Dream of Life, in 1988. In 1993, Smith made her first public reappearance at New York's Summer Stage. There are several explanations for her time away from the public arena, but Smith is hardly talking. Whatever the reasons, they only make her more enigmatic...
Guitarist Lenny Kaye, a longtime member of the Patti Smith Group, accompanied Smith for most of the songs. Towards the set's end, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore came out with another acoustic guitar; the unplugged session produced had soulful harmony...
...Blake's notion that the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, but in Mapplethorpe's case it seems to have led only to more excess. The one human relationship that comes alive in the book is his lifelong friendship with the rock singer and poet Patti Smith. Her tortured soulfulness, however, contrasts with Mapplethorpe's relentless superficiality; his photographs of her are the only ones that do not seem oppressively clinical. (Even his images of flowers look denatured...