Word: roache
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When the welfare officers came to take three-year-old Archie Roach from his tin-lined house in Framlingham in southeastern Australia, they told his mother they were escorting him to a picnic. His aunt tried to scare them off with a gun, but it wasn't loaded. Institutionalized in a Melbourne orphanage, young Archie was told his family had died in a fire. His minders tried to force his hair straight, breaking comb teeth in his frizzy curls. It was a vain attempt by whites to make an Aboriginal child more like them. It didn't work...
DIED. STANLEY TURRENTINE, 66, soulful blues-based tenor saxophonist whose 1970 crossover hit, Sugar, inspired today's "smooth jazz"; of a stroke; in New York City. A three-time Grammy nominee, Turrentine played with Ray Charles, Max Roach and Herbie Hancock early in his career and in 1953 replaced John Coltrane in Earl Bostic's band. He also made forays into pop music, including a 1976 jazz interpretation of Stairway to Heaven...
...Rodco called the band "supercool mood country"). Using a 56K modem, it took a mind-numbing 2 hr. 20 min. to download the band's track Sugar Pie in Bed (this critic was able to have a buffet lunch, shop at Barnes & Noble and listen to the new Papa Roach CD in the interim). Still, the track, with its gently curmudgeonly vocals and drowsy guitar, was worth the hassle. Well, maybe...
About ecstasy: any drug that makes young people throw down their guns and start dancing should not be forbidden. It should be compulsory. DAVID A. ROACH Corpus Christi, Texas...
...Picks out of a lineup 14. Ramshackle digs 16. Fixed routine 18. Give it __ (try) 19. Cartoon squeal 22. AWOL chasers 24. For the first time, blacks participated in the Battle of Blakeley re-enactment here 27. Congressman who may challenge Giuliani for the nomination 30. Its realistic roach resulted in some broken TVs 31. Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister, who has been jailed for life 33. Ship pronoun 34. Listen in on, in a way 35. Earth-friendly prefix 37. Wile E. Coyote's supply company 41. Lipton competitor 44. Divining device 45. Judge who's no friend...