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...Loveless sings it, the truth ain't pretty, but it sounds as golden as the Gospel." says Corliss. "Producer Emory Gordy Jr. (her current husband) wraps Loveless around 10 prime laments that express the aftershock of betrayal, in musical settings that range from up-tempo to hillbilly solemn...
...raising eyebrows on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers are discovering that an army of civilians, contracted privately, has been deployed to augment the G.I.s. Brown & Root Inc., a Houston engineering firm, will supervise Balkan workers on projects like building pipelines and sewerage systems and is prepared to undertake the solemn task of readying the bodies of U.S. fatalities for shipment home. The Army's increasing dependence on civilian help is leading penny pinchers to wonder whether it is still necessary to budget $7 billion annually for the 300,000 reservists already trained and paid to do those jobs. It's all good...
...label had not supported what he saw as his musical maturation. He sued to get out of the contract, lost, refused to record for Sony anyway and eventually worked out his deal with DreamWorks. The former Wham! singer's first single for Dreamworks, Jesus to a Child, is rather solemn but is starting to get some airplay, especially on adult-contemporary stations. Since the rest of the album won't be out until April or perhaps even later, the jury is still out on his comeback...
...trip they took together that Gingrich claims changed his life forever. It occurred when he was 14 and went with his father to the World War I battlefield of Verdun, France. They wandered the fields, scene of ghastly sacrifice, with its solemn tombs for soldiers from each country, and then slipped into the ossuary. But there were private stairs leading down to a basement, walled off by glass windows that had been painted black to hide what was inside. The paint had peeled, so they decided to take a peek...
BOSTON--In a solemn ceremony Sunday morning in front of hundreds of survivors, the city of Boston dedicated a memorial to the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust...