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...imperialist" and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Certainly Geldof s lively penchant for the vernacular would make for a salty acceptance speech in Oslo, but any wishful, wistful speculation about the award's being grabbed by a rocker should not steer clear of the main point. Rock music, the most formidable force in Western popular culture, found a focus and a conscience this year and saved a great many lives. Rock sang, for a while, in unison, and Bob Geldof was choirmaster. --By Jay Cocks. Reported by Cathy Booth/New York
...Museum of Science and Industry--all the fetuses in the jars. Some of them aren't much more than fetuses. But then I saw a mother whose baby weighed 1 1b. 5 oz. She was a typical teenager, liked to have a good time, dance, listen to rock music. What she did with that baby was a revelation. I like it when they put their hand under the baby's head. There's something tender about it. Mainly, she talked to him, and she made that child human for me. Because of her tremendous desire for that child to make...
After France admitted that its intelligence agents had blown up the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior in Auckland's harbor last July, relations between Paris and Wellington seemed to hit rock bottom. They were exacerbated even further last week when New Zealand customs officials announced that "enough ammunition to start a small war" had been found on the French-owned cargo vessellie de Lumière when it docked in Auckland. Aboard were some 5,300 high-caliber pistol rounds, automatic weapons parts and two military walkie-talkies...
...bottom." Her grandmother put on earplugs when she sang. Hardly the way to treat a lady. Unless she happens to be Lady (Helen) Teresa Margaret Manners, 23, daughter of Charles John Robert Manners, the tenth Duke of Rutland, and lead singer of the British aristo-rock band, the Business Connection. Despite the group's white-collar name, Lady Teresa's connections are strictly blue blood. Her father owns Belvoir Castle, one of Britain's most imposing homes; her 15-piece band includes the Marquess of Worcester on vocals and the 19th Duke of Somerset on drums. A horsewoman and London...
DIED. Eric Milliard ("Ricky") Nelson, 45, clean-cut rock singer and former teenage idol who grew up on TV's longest-running family sitcom, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952-66) performing such early recordings as A Teenager's Romance (1957), Poor Little Fool (1958) and others, which sold more than 35 million copies by the time he was 21; in a DC-3 crash that also killed his fiancée and five members of his band; near De Kalb, Texas. Nelson had difficulty shedding his adolescent image after the TV program's demise, and his albums did poorly...