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...lost soul returns home, gathers up the kids and sets the place on fire, as the suave, singalong chorus offers the musical equivalent of God's unmeddling sympathy. The narrator in Suicide Alley, a nihilist's jaunty march, shares Sunny's glums: "I wasn't born, I was spat out at a wall...on the corner of First and Insane." In If I Were Brave, Colvin brings the alienation home, to the singer on the stage, "a clown to entertain the happy couples." But these open wounds are swathed in lovely melodies. Colvin may feel isolated...
...stage was being built right underneath my window. I was able to drift back to sleep for a little while, only to be awakened again by a repeated test of a very powerful audio system. My roommates and I--and no doubt countless dorm inhabitants around us--cursed and spat for a while and decided that if we had anything to do with it, HYPE '96 would meet a swift and sudden death...
...AWARDS] Oasis lead singer LIAM GALLAGHER, in a sign of things to come (see previous page), spat, poured beer on the audience and knocked over the mike...
...rock marriages go, it was granite-solid, with just one major public spat in 22 years. It even survived a bankruptcy and a fire-destroyed home. But now JANE PETTY, wife of paler-version-of-Bob-Dylan TOM PETTY, has filed for divorce. In an interview last year, Petty said his marriage had "taken some shrapnel. We do walk with a slight limp." Expect headlines with plays on the word heartbreaker, and some wistful songs from...
...unite the democratic opposition to Zyuganov, or at least dull its threat to his own candidacy. One often hears of an imminent deal in which Yeltsin's leading non-Communist opponents, Grigori Yavlinsky and Alexander Lebed, will drop their campaigns. Last week, though, Yeltsin and Yavlinsky had a public spat as talks about joining forces hit a bump. "He wants too much," said Yeltsin, at first referring to Yavlinsky's demands that he fire much of his Cabinet, but later the President decided he could "accept" many of them...