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...more of the same, although a little uneven. "Charlotte Anne" (say it fast) presents a sadder, gentler Julian, singing "The sound you bring is an antiquated thing/ So please don't look to me for guidance" over airy keyboards and a martial beat. The inclusion of the string-sodden "China Doll" is inexplicable...
...minutes chatting with Florida Governor Lawton Chiles during a photo opportunity. Two days later, again anxious to show fresh tactical flexibility under newly installed chief of staff James Baker, the White House hustled Bush off to Louisiana in Andrew's wake. "The President," Bush explained to the sodden residents of New Iberia, "ought to show up when people are hurting...
...doctor or a fat farm to get flat and firm. To find a potion that will keep them forever young -- a kind of Preparation Age -- Mad and Hell will even make a mud-pact with Satan. And you can bet the devil is a woman (Isabella Rossellini). Only the sodden man in their lives (Bruce Willis), a plastic surgeon turned makeup artist for the newly dead, has any understanding of the toxic wastes that lace the Fountain of Youth...
...listen to young Jabar and Hussein, privates in the Iraqi army, was to know the story of their country last week. A bag of spoiled dates -- "food for cattle," Hussein called it -- was their only sustenance as they plodded down a rain-sodden highway littered with ravaged tanks in southern Iraq. They had come from Basra, where a popular uprising against Saddam Hussein's government was under way. At one point in the fighting, Jabar and Hussein shed their uniforms and joined the revolt, but they grew fainthearted when loyalist troops began shelling rebel positions. "We are for the people...
...more established companies have let gather dust in the vaults, from the high-octane rockabilly of Del Shannon to the screeching serenades of Lou Christie. Rhino's recent Groove 'n' Grind compilation is a floor-scuffling, roof-raising anthology of raucous party tunes from the '50s and '60s, featuring sodden classics like Land of 1,000 Dances by Cannibal and the Headhunters. The current Rockin' in the Country: The Best of Wanda Jackson is a roundup of much of the prime material recorded by a vocalist who has real roadhouse spirit and a way with a song that makes...