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...brought is a lot of our old stuff," he told the crowd. His performance was energetic and amiable but lacking in substance--Brooks was out merely to entertain, not to create great music. And most people were so far from the stage that Brooks was just a black speck in a cowboy hat. Hometown-hero Billy Joel, a special guest on a few songs, got a larger ovation. The highlight of the show came at the end, after the HBO telecast was over, when Brooks and Joel came out for an encore of Joel's You May Be Right. Brooks...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "My dad was a butcher. And he trimmed every last speck of fat off the meat he sold. Why? To give people their money's worth. We should balance the budget the same way. He didn't use a meat ax, and neither should...
...asked us to doubt the moral basis of all hatreds--even of our enemies--and to doubt our frequent feelings of moral superiority, our illusion of clarity. ("You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye; and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.") Other religions also preach universal love and harsh self-scrutiny. Buddha said, "The fault of others is easily perceived, but that of one's self is difficult to perceive...
...unsavory in death as he was in life, mass murderer Richard Speck has come back to haunt the Illinois department of corrections. Last week state legislators packed a hearing room to view a two-hour tape of Speck cavorting with his prison lover. Purportedly filmed in 1988, three years before Speck's death, the tape shows the two inmates snorting cocaine, rolling marijuana joints, brandishing a roll of $100 bills and engaging in oral sex. "If they only knew how much fun I was having," Speck deadpans to the camera, "they would turn me loose...
...Speck, who was convicted of the 1966 slayings of eight student nurses, spent 25 years in Stateville Correctional Center, a maximum-security lockup in Joliet, until he died, apparently of a heart attack. On the tape, Speck boasts about the murders. "Strangle a person? It ain't like you see on TV," he says. "You have to go at it for about 3 1/2 minutes. It takes a lot of strength...