Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...local activism, even solo advocacy, has paid off in the face of adversity. Three years ago, John Broussard, a former Air Force medic, stunned the tiny Louisiana farming town of Welsh when he announced on local TV that he was gay and had AIDS. After the broadcast, his home was pelted with rocks. Local doctors refused to treat him. Baptist neighbors crowed that he was going to hell, and his parents, he says, "went through more rejection by friends in one year than they ever had in their entire lives...
...were a 12-year-old boy on a solo Save the Whale campaign, well, you'd slap your favorite marine mammal into a truck for a drive to the Pacific Ocean. And to keep him refreshed, you'd probably run him through an automatic car wash. And then, like an animal tamer who uses love instead of a whip, you'd get your adorable orca to leap over a high jetty so he could be reunited with his pod. You'd go that far for a friend. Where there's a whale, there...
...Beach Boys still play around, of course, although Brian is now making solo music on his own. He is currently in the studio with Smile collaborator Van Dyke Parks, good news that demonstrates, like this great collection, that the creative tide is still strong. Surf...
...BOTTOM LINE: After four years of solo dispersal, New Order regroups for an album of compassionate dance...
...mountain climbers the news over Memorial Day weekend was grim but not really surprising. At Yosemite Valley in California, the body of Derek Hersey, a renowned Alpinist whose unforgiving specialty was rock-wall climbing done solo and without the protection of belays, was found below Sentinel Peak. And on Alaska's Denali (Mount McKinley), descending unroped in darkness down an icy chute called Orient Express, Charles Cearley, 40, a mountaineer from Seattle, fell 3,000 ft. and died...