Word: smith
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...Patti Smith Group broke up in 1979 and Smith spent the '80s raising a family, releasing only Dream of Life, in 1988. In 1993, Smith made her first public reappearance at New York's Summer Stage. There are several explanations for her time away from the public arena, but Smith is hardly talking. Whatever the reasons, they only make her more enigmatic...
...Smith adroitly deflected attention from herself to others such as Mapplethorpe and Shepard. She read one of Kerouac's poems and credited 10,000 Maniacs with "Because the Night," a song she wrote with Bruce Springsteen. Janet Hamill, Smith's good friend and 'mentor' opened the reading with her own sensual descriptions of art and landscapes...
...Smith was too self-critical to seem extraordinary. While her assistants located her books and glasses, she mocked how unprofessional the gig was and admonished the audience not to tolerate it. With people seated on the floor in front of her, the set had a folksy feel, like a campfire gathering...
...Republican, Democrat or independent. I don't agree with anyone on 100% of the issues, but I do think the U.S. needs a reasonable, clear-thinking person to eliminate the contentious, nasty attitudes found in Washington today. Powell has got my vote. I also liked Ike. DONALD P. SMITH Mesa, Arizona...
There were a lot of people in the town of Blair, Nebraska, who thought they knew what was best for "Mary Smith,'' 15 years old and pregnant. But it's unlikely that most of them, including the police, were acting lawfully. In May 1994, Congress passed the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which makes it a federal crime to use force or threaten to use force against a woman seeking an abortion. The law was intended to end the vigilante violence that had exploded at abortion clinics around the country. The lawmakers probably didn't even envision...