Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boomtown. Ricketts and Childs lived together and worked together, and Union has much to do with their affair. Childs signed with A&M records and moved in with Ricketts on the same day. She moved out 16 months later, with memories enough for an album and with a professional relationship that endures. "We couldn't live together," she says now. "We both push too many buttons in each other. For music, that is good, but when it comes to personal life, we both need somebody gentler. We are not so gentle...
...struggle hard with her own feelings. "In Let the Rain Come Down, that person I was singing about was right there with me, and the words coming out were, 'You don't love me anymore,' " she reflects. "I was facing up, right then, to what was happening." Their personal relationship had ended by the time the album was actually recorded in 1987, but, Childs says, "David and I will be an item for a long time, only it won't be sexual." Harking back to David + David's Boomtown, she laughs and adds, "I think of this as a David...
...plans being made for a summer tour, Childs is forging a fresh perspective. She has got in touch with her family. She is thinking about a second record ("I want Indian percussion, African voices and an Indonesian influence"). If she can get an album like Union from a single relationship, the music she makes from the rest of her life should really be extraordinary...
...extending Syria's security role beyond the western part of Beirut, Assad reinforced his position as Lebanon's leading power broker. At the same time, he managed to preserve a relatively cordial relationship with Iran, which had given its blessing to Hizballah's negotiators. Iran's cooperation may have been motivated in part by the battlefield losses it has suffered recently in the eight-year-old gulf war with Iraq. Last week Iraqi troops recaptured Iranian-occupied territory east of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, beyond the battered southern port city of Basra...
...fact, what has already been achieved is nothing less than a major breakthrough -- an important and promising feat in its own right, and all the more extraordinary against the history of the relationship. As recently as 1984, the arms-control process had collapsed. Washington and Moscow were barely speaking. Now the main provisions of an unprecedented treaty that would significantly reduce the largest, most powerful and most dangerous weapons on earth -- intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) -- have been committed to paper...