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After the body was discovered, police reported that Renfrew had most likely lost her way in the heavy fog which normally surrounds, the peak, and attempted to retrace her steps back to the tourist path when she fell...
...confidence of the predominantly black city, Young pushed integration of the police department-in 1973 the force was only 15% black compared with 40% today-and assigned more officers to foot patrols. By 1980, the overall crime rate was down, and murders had dropped to 549 from the 1974 peak of 714. Before his first term was up, he had amassed a budget surplus and coaxed $ 150 million from the city's business community to finish building Renaissance Center, a gleaming cluster of office towers and a hotel on the Detroit River...
...ideal probably had begun to fade when Norman Mailer published a hodgepodge of fiction and autobiography under the title Advertisements for Myself. In any case, windy self-advertisement became more and more popular in the years that followed. Said John Lennon at the peak of the Beatles' popularity: "We're more popular than Jesus Christ now." Said Heavyweight Boxer Muhammad Ali, in a typical flight: "It ain't no accident that I'm the greatest man in the world at this time in history." The same period at last produced an intellectual model for publicly saluting...
...DAVE, EDMUNDS' new album, Twangin', Rockpile backs him up: Lowe on bass, Terry Williams on drums, and Billy Bremner on second guitar. It's his fourth effort with them: Lowe has two, and the group as a unit has one. Twangin' is Edmunds in peak form--crafted, yet vibrant, rollicking yet soulful. Where Lowe's talent lies in witty sarcasm about everything from the Bay City Rollers to man-eating dogs, Edmunds lets his stinging guitar affirm rock and roll, putting polish on classics old and new. He plays in the Elvis Presley mode, but adds musicianship and production techniques...
This quick shift in time and perspective effectively symbolizes the stealthy passing of the years: one day you look up and find your child almost grown, your career at its peak and a strange emptiness in your heart. In Katerina's case, the void is filled when she meets Gosha (Alexei Batalov), a magical figure on the order of the Alan Bates character in An Unmarried Woman. The difference is that he has none of the latter's squishy glamour. Gosha is a workingman, an upholder of traditional male values, however humorously he states them...