Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weed, so everyone else should,' " explains Basehead leader Michael Ivey. "It's more a form of honesty. It's part of my life." Onstage, the Southern rockers the Black Crowes perform under a 48-ft. by 24-ft. banner emblazoned with a marijuana leaf. Says the group's lead singer, Chris Robinson, who posed for the cover of High Times magazine smoking a joint: "Pot is an essential part of life on the road...
...that there were no "head shots," the first prosecution answered with a career desk officer. This time Duke was rebutted by witnesses with street wisdom: the police academy's trainer in the use of force, Sergeant Mark Conta, and a California Highway Patrol member who saw King beaten, Melanie Singer. Conta said, "We never teach to break bones. I see excessive force here. The picture I see is that of a beaten man who is not combative or aggressive." He faulted each defendant: Koon for failing to intervene, Wind for six "brutal kicks," Briseno for stomping on King's neck...
...last page of the handbook is an advertisement from the Coop. The people pictured in the ad--singer k.d. lang. Popeye, a model and two cartoon characters are all white...
...Slow Dancing with the Moon is an ideal reminder of Parton's status as a premier singer-songwriter. Her plaints, like I Will Always Love You (a recent chart tyrant for Whitney Houston), expand the reach of country music to both coasts and most places in between. But Parton is her own best interpreter. Country guitar picker Chet Atkins gives her this impish praise: "She has more talent than I've got in my little finger...
...sing fretful-mother tunes (What Will Baby Be) or hymns religious (High and Mighty) and secular (Jackie DeShannon's Put a Little Love in Your Heart) with the same innocent intensity. In the lovely title number (written by Mac Davis), the singer watches a 15-year-old girl in love with music, in love with love, and remembers her own long-ago youth. The whole album provides Parton with a dandy career retrospective. She comes full circle to reconsider a lifetime of womanly misbehavin' in the purity of her girlish voice. We're < all grown-ups, she says, and still...