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...Peter "Sid" Sidebottom's constituents, he says, don't much like being in the spotlight. Since 1998, the Labor M.P. has represented the federal seat of Braddon, a quiet, largely rural electorate in north-western Tasmania of around 62,000 voters, many of them farmers and fishermen. But one of the region's other industries, forestry, keeps bringing the residents of Braddon's towns and hamlets the kind of attention that makes Sidebottom furious. "Many hundreds" of his constituents depend on the state's forestry industry, he says, and if the campaign in this election to phase out logging...
...part was integral to the record. Guy was very similar to us in a lot of ways. We'd just split up with our manager, lost our rehearsal place and we found ourselves as the only band in town really, after the [Sex] Pistols had broken up and Sid [Vicious] had died. We felt outside and I know that Guy was an outsider. He used to be a catalyst by directly physically interacting with us in the studio while we were recording. What do you mean by "directly physically interacting"? He'd get quite close indeed, especially if you were...
...Idol contestant who gets over on charm or a touching story is in good company. Singers have always used biography, real or concocted, to bond with their audience: Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil, Loretta Lynn growing up a coal miner's daughter. (If only Sid and Nancy had a reality show.) Who a singer is and how he or she lived don't just drive the audience's interest but, at best, inform the performance. In Porgy and Bess, for instance, Clara sings Summertime to her baby during a storm that will claim the child's father...
Afghanistan: The Other War The face of Marine Corporal Patrick Gravenese on your cover said it all. He is tired of the war, but he has to go on-for all of us. Sid O'Brien Signal Hill...
...face of Marine Corporal Patrick Gravenese on your cover said it all. He is tired of the war, but he has to go on--for all of us. We here at home lament the minor difficulties we encounter, while our troops are over there, sweating it. God bless them. SID O'BRIEN Signal Hill, Calif...