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...this is the second version of Dillon's death. Isadore Mihalakis, a pathologist, declared that the shape and angle of the shotgun wound indicated that Dillon could not have shot himself accidentally. There was also no evidence of the burn marks that usually come from a gunshot at close range. Mihalakis concluded that Dillon was killed not while running but while sitting, and that his death was a homicide. The police declared Scher the chief suspect, charging him with murder...
...Come To Daddy, James has crafted a remarkable symphony of beats, percussion, found sound, distorted vocals and more beats. All in all, it is percussion--of every imaginable shape and color--that marks the album. Obsessed with cramming as many percussive hits into as small a time space as possible, James loads the album with polyrhythms, crazed snare hits and percussive sequences that simply cannot be described by words. When he occasionally pulls away the percussion, letting his ethereal, ghostly melodies rise to the top of the mix, it is like a breath of fresh air before he pulls...
...tormented, not so still-living-in-James-Dean's-shadow side of stardom, we find Tori Spelling. She bounces in on top of a pair of bright-orange platform flip-flops, plastic daisies affixed to their toe straps. Clutching a baby-blue handbag the size and shape of a lunchbox, she is wearing baggy denim overalls and a floral-print T shirt. In short, she is the spitting image of a jolly, schoolbound kindergartner, although at 24 she is better coiffed and more skillfully made up than most...
...contrast, has been characterized by an insistent sprightliness. Yet that upbeat temperament should not be mistaken for shallowness or lack of guile. Throughout Homogenic, there is a current of danger and violence. On the driving Bachelorette, Bjork sings, "I'm a fountain of blood, my love/ In the shape of a girl." And on the high-voltage, techno-infused Pluto, she sings, "Excuse me/ but I just have to explode." The album's sound is a collision of classical style (violins and cellos) and bruising electronic beats...
...unstated but implacable color line in major league baseball and changed American race relations forever. First from his mother, and later from a black Methodist minister who befriended him in his troubled adolescence, Jackie imbibed the belief that God had plans for him. Sure enough, an implausible design took shape. Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, plucked Robinson out of the obscurity of the Negro league Kansas City Monarchs in 1945 and asked him if he could accept the terms of making history, with all the abuse that would ensue. "I'm looking," Rickey famously said...