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...GEORGE HARRISON WAS ASKED That Question for the thousandth time. There would be no Beatles reunion, the quiet one said, "as long as John Lennon remains dead." Yet here they were, George and Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, in the Abbey Road studios, putting aside rancors that had festered for decades and making music. "Working together, they've found themselves again," says the Beatles' longtime record producer George Martin of the sessions last winter. "There was a great spirit of camaraderie. It's almost as though John was with them too." And he was. Lennon's audible ghost sings lead...
...Prairie Reunion by Barbara J. Scot (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 230 pages; $21) is a bittersweet homecoming story tracing the author's return in middle age to the puritannical farming community where she grew up. In Scotch Grove, Iowa, she tries to piece together the puzzle of her mother's loving stoicism in the face of her father's humiliating desertion and subsequent suicide. Structured as a patchwork of conversations, childhood recollections and lyrical encounters with the land, Scot's quietly earnest quest yields her valuable understanding of her mother's reticence and a deeper appreciation of the mysteries of family...
...will be raised the way Nicole and I had always planned." The day after his acquittal, says Simpson's friend and legal counsel Robert Kardashian, "he saw them all day... it was a wonderful moment. It was laughing, crying, kissing, hugging--all the things you would expect from this reunion...
...remained an active alum of the A.D. final club. In fact, a picture of Houghton and several buddies from his reunion class still adorns the wall of an upstairs bar room in the club's elegant Plympton St. house...
...Lansing-Everett High class of '79 reunion is, of course, a major source of worry, fraught with opportunities for humiliation. Should she tell her former classmates she's gay? That she performed with an all-female troop called the Five Lesbian Brothers? Should she introduce her lover as "the roommate?" Poignancy begins to enter the picture here as we witness the refreshing triumph of the once sheepish, small-town schoolgirl, released from the purgatory of junior high, who now, as an aggressive, honorary New Yorker can face an audience of classmates and proclaim: "I'm a lesbian...