Word: stillings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...core of this CD that trails every beat like a heart murmur. At age 12, Apple says, she was raped by a stranger. Images from that attack creep across her songs, shadows angling along a wall. In Fast As You Can, she sings, "I fight him always and still." In real life, Apple says, she's happily dating filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights). But on this CD, her heart is a chunk of meat in a fridge: unloved, unlovable, freezer-burned. Violated once, she says romance races "right through" her. So she writes songs that investigate the opposite...
Alas, James Joyce's The Dead (adding the author's name still won't boost the group sales) turns out to be neither wondrous nor wacky but just kind of wan. The musical numbers, written in traditional Irish style by Shaun Davey, are, with a couple of exceptions, simply songs being performed at Julia and Kate Morkan's annual Christmastime gathering--a gathering that provides an epiphany for their nephew Gabriel...
...iMacs are beautiful! I am a college student ready to graduate and purchase a new computer, and I don't even want to think about buying a beige Wintel box. However, the Macintosh platform is still not as universally supported as are PCs, and this puts users at a disadvantage. Apple may be turning a profit and churning out the most dramatic designs in the computer industry, but until more software is written for the Macintosh platform, my money will be going elsewhere. JONATHAN FLESHER Gainesville...
...make room for daylong ABC News coverage of the millennial turnover, anchored by PETER JENNINGS. President Clinton is expected to address the nation near midnight, potentially bumping other programming off the airwaves. Clark--who has been host of New Year's Eve specials for the past 27 years--is still scheduled to count down the traditional ball drop in Times Square, but he won't be producing entertainment segments. "I've been relieved of those duties and just assigned to the ball," says Clark, who declined to discuss specifics about the network's decision. Guess that's one fellow...
...duration of flu symptoms by about 1 1/2 days and slice in half the risk of complications such as bronchitis and sinusitis. What's more, a new study finds that taken for six weeks before any symptoms, Tamiflu may help prevent flu in the first place. Still, the best first line of defense is a flu shot...