Word: pete
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bergmann and Company had just killed a 30-second holding penalty when an errant pass during the clear landed in a Pioneer's pocket and resulted in a 4-on-3 last break Three quick passes later Pete Sanders had put Post ahead 11-10 with three minutes remaining...
Goals; H, Tim McCaffrey 3, Tom Corcoran 2, Chris Pujols 2, Jamia Wright 2, Martin Garcia, Peter Follows, Rob Hurlbut; CWP, Pete Sanders 2, Jim Dobreff 2, Tom Germano 2, Wade Richter, Rich Mullen, Jim Bovich, Sal Mattese, John Campbell...
FICTION: Edisto, Padgett Powell God's Pocket, Pete Dexter ∙ Slow Learner, Thomas Pynchon Sweeney Astray, Seamus Heaney Testing the Current, William McPherson ∙ The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera...
...times it might have seemed like a tradeoff: two hit singles, Stop Your Sobbing and Brass in Pocket, and one Top Five album, Pretenders; two deaths: James Honeyman-Scott, the lead guitarist, whose body finally gave in to the cumulative destruction wrought by massive infusions of cocaine, and Pete Farndon, whose prolonged bouts with pharmacological excess seemed to accelerate in direct proportion to the band's increasing celebrity. "Because fame and success jumped on us so fast, we all had our own ways of dealing with it," Hynde says now. Other English bands of the period got mixed...
...Pete Farndon was strung out and couldn't admit he was a junkie," Hynde says, reflecting on her old colleague and former lover. Eventually, he had to be dismissed from the band, and Hynde last saw him at Honeyman-Scott's funeral. "He was terribly bitter and resentful. He felt like 'You fired me, but Jim's the one who died from drugs.' Ten months later," she adds, "Pete had drowned in the bath-tub with a needle sticking out of his arm." No stranger to indulgence herself ("I used to take any kind...