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...contrast in several ways: first, it is played in a trio format with just horn, bass and drums. The song's standard 12-bar blues form also contrasts with the exotic eastern style of "India." Without a written melody or a pianist to play chords, "Chasin'" has a uniquely spare sound, and the second version is perhaps the most prominent and audacious of the tracks on the collection. Whether this performance comes off as one of the finest examples of spontaneous musical invention ever or as 15 minutes of earsplitting squeaks, is heavily dependent on the listener...
...know you're at risk but don't know if you have the gene, you'll live your life like you have the disease," says Ruth. Her plan if she tested positive: to find a good housekeeper for her husband and sons, then disappear. "I wanted to spare my family," she explains...
...YORK: Brother, can you spare a study? TIME's Adam Cohen reports that nobody has bothered to research whether welfare-to-work reforms are working, even as the national initiative's first benchmark deadline approaches. "While the states are boasting about so many people disappearing from their welfare rolls, they have no idea where these people are actually going," says Cohen. "Do they get jobs? Are they ending up in homeless shelters...
...Fisher and legions of increasingly frustrated Kodak investors, the setbacks brought the need for a course correction into painfully sharp focus. Declaring that "we can't live with a continuing deterioration of our profits," Fisher vowed to embark later this year on cost cuts that he had hoped to spare the company. The prospect must have sent chills through the ranks of Kodak's 94,800 workers--including 34,000 in the company town of Rochester, N.Y., which has already weathered past layoffs. "Earlier in the year we thought we could wait out the price situation and the dollar," Fisher...
...commemorative album of photos from the set of The Ice Storm in Kline's Manhattan East Side apartment. The album was a gift from Sigourney Weaver, who plays his mistress in the film. It seems that Kline was rehearsing a benefit Shakespeare performance during shooting and spent every spare moment reciting speeches to the cast and crew. Weaver got director Ang Lee, co-stars Joan Allen, Christina Ricci and others to pose while yawning, sleeping or looking otherwise bored during Kline's endless classical recitations. "I always wait till the yawns are audible before stopping," Kline says...