Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...freeway into the Granada Hills area of Los Angeles and saw his target. Police say he walked into the lobby of the North Valley Jewish Community Center carrying the Uzi and opened fire, spraying bullets in a sweeping motion from right to left, leaving a room filled with acrid smoke and more than 70 shells scattered on the floor. By the time he ran out the door moments later, a 68-year-old receptionist, a 16-year-old camp counselor at the day-care center and three children were wounded. "Just shooting like a maniac," says Victor Ruelas...
...they let on that the Pakistanis had fired a missile -? which Pakistan later confirmed. We were about 2 miles away from the border, and the missile exploded in the air about a quarter mile ahead of us. The pilots of the choppers following behind ours saw a plume of smoke and the explosion, which they say are tell-tale signs of a surface-to-air missile. If they?d waited another minute or two before firing, we?d have been hit. But the Pakistanis may have fired early to warn us off entering the area...
Sometimes that self-knowledge is visible only from atop the junk heap of good intentions. "Now the deed is done, and the smoke has cleared/ From the ashes some glimmer of the truth appears," Richey sings in the lustrously plaintive Didn't I. Then, in the song's chorus, all objectivity evaporates--"I did the best I could/ Didn't I? Didn't I? Didn't I?"--and by repeating the question, she makes it both an accusation and a child's plea. The song is a jeweled showcase for a shattered psyche...
...nice mix of gravity--heft, seriousness--and buoyancy. It's the declaration of a survivor who sings what's important to her without sweating the consequences. As she sings in Can't Lose Them All, "I could go down in history, or I could go up in smoke/ Be the center of attention or the butt of every joke." Glimmer should put Richey at the center of attention. And if she makes more albums like this one, she could make a little music history...
...taken by the cutter Sanibel to the U.S.S. Briscoe, which had steamed up from Virginia overnight by special request of the Secretary of Defense. The only things those left onshore could see were the bright whites of the officials, the black of the mourners and a puff of smoke as the Briscoe motored out to the point at which the most powerful telephoto lenses could register just the silhouettes of the mourners. The family bore their loved ones' ashes, three wreaths and three American flags. Caroline held her husband's hand as he clutched a canvas bag. Red, white...