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...matter. Mitchell is in a good mood and in good voice, and she delivers a jazzy, ebullient set, floating through a few songs from her latest CD, Taming the Tiger. Then, alone with her guitar, she offers up a spare, resonant reading of her gently anthemic song Woodstock. "We are stardust...And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden..." she sings. The lyrics seem to belong to another age, an era of idealism and Abbie Hoffman and moon landings and electric Kool-Aid acid tests and B-52s bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. But even...
...must be a senseless gimmick just dying for a shot of arch hipness, you can practically assume. Another dud for the remainders bin. Fortunately for us, though, these songwriters have in fact crafted an album that is subtle, passionate and captivating. Pieced together by Bacharach and Costello during spare moments together in hotel suites on rented pianos, the songs on Painted from Memory are as substantial and arresting as any in recent years...
Three weeks ago, we called for President Clinton to resign. Today, with the House voting to launch an open-ended impeachment inquiry, it seems clearer than ever that only resignation could spare us months and months more of detail and debate about a scandal we would all love to forget...
Dropped out, kicked out or expunged, Hearst completed his formal education without a diploma. Luckily for him, his father happened to have a paper that he could spare: The San Francisco Examiner. This first of Harvard's famous dropouts managed to double the paper's subscription in just a year; by then, he was well on his way to becoming one of the century's most notorious media moguls. Unlike the new crop of deserters, though, Hearst discovered no latent love of his alma mater in later life; Harvard did not see a cent of the $200 million he left...
...began and impressed with her own performance. When John F. Kennedy Jr. came on the show, she could not fail to mention that she and Maria Shriver were the best of friends. Surprise, surprise. Two wealthy and prominent women obsessed with their self-image hang out together in their spare time...