Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Dennis Wilson, 39, boisterous, handsome drummer, keyboardist and singer of California's enduring rock-'n'-roll band the Beach Boys; of accidental drowning when he dived off a boat slip into 12 ft. of water; in Marina Del Rey, Calif. Wilson, the Beach Boys' only genuine surfer, named the upbeat, harmonizing quintet that since 1961 has glorified the sea, the sun, teen love and cars in such hits as Good Vibrations, California Girls and Surfin' U.S.A. Although Wilson often feuded with other group members, he was on board for the satisfying moment last summer...
FICTION: The Anatomy Lesson, Philip Roth ∙Life and Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee ∙The Penitent, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙Pitch Dark, Renata Adler ∙Rates of Exchange, Malcolm Bradbury ∙5hame, Salman Rushdie NONFICTION: The Discoverers, Daniel J. Boorstin ∙The Oxford Book of Dreams, edited by Stephen Brook Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, Phyllis Rose ∙The Rosenberg File, Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton ∙Siegfried Sassoon's Long Journey, edited by Paul Fussell The Spiritualists, Ruth Brandon
HOSPITALIZED. Johnny Cash, 51, stone-faced country and western singer; to avoid chemical dependency; in the Betty Ford Center of Eisenhower Medical Center; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Fearful that he might become hooked on drugs after taking prescribed painkillers for sciatic nerve spasms and surgery on a bleeding ulcer, the gravel-voiced Cash checked himself into a rehabilitation program...
DIED. Fania Fénelon, 75, singer in the all-female inmate orchestra at the Auschwitz death camp, who recounted her ordeal in the memoir Playing for Time; of a heart attack; in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France. Fénelon's 1976 book was made into a television movie four years later, with Vanessa Redgrave portraying Fénelon despite objections because of pro-Palestine Liberation Organization statements...
Tender Mercies. A country singer touches bottom and finds that it consists of good Texas earth in which he can reroot his humanity. Actor Robert Duvall warms and graces Screenwriter Horton Foote's tale with his lived-in face and a performance as raw as a Hank Williams ballad...