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...Regattabar last year, when she lambasted her bass player on stage for not getting the changes right. Unlike the poor bassist, Allen was not cowed by Carter's aggressiveness. The level of tension during the London concert at which feed the Fire was recorded actually seemed to stoke her creative furnaces. Her solos are a fascinating commentary on Carter's uniquely expressive vocal style...
...Alan Durban, manager of Stoke City in the English First Division, who served up this tasty little remark to the assembled postgame press after attempting to play for a boring 0-0 draw away to Arsenal (losing only to two late goals) during the 1980-81 season...
...languish for a year in the Warner Bros. vault, comes from an unlikely auteur: poverty- row director Abel Ferrara, whose earlier work, from Ms. 45 to Bad Lieutenant, is a gallery of Grunge Guignol. Somehow, flanked by five scripters (including his regular collaborator Nicholas St. John), he managed to stoke his tale with the eerie subtlety of the best old B movies...
...nation of immigrants from the beginning, the U.S. has welcomed most newcomers, grateful for any new pairs of hands to tame its vast interior or help stoke its huge industrial engine. For more than a century, most of the new arrivals were from Europe. But in the 1960s the U.S. undertook a basic shift in national policy, from one stacked in favor of European immigrants toward one that favored the rest of the world, particularly Third World nations. The full effects of that policy have exploded only in recent years. The past decade has seen the greatest rise in immigration...
...STOKE-ON-TRENT: People were stunned in this industrial town after a report compiled by two senior doctors acting for the local health authority said many cancer patients had died because their radiation dosages had been miscalculated. In 1982 the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary bought a computer programmed to determine precise dosages for cancer treatment. But it arrived minus an instruction manual. Senior physicist Margaret Grieveson assumed that a "correction factor" needed to adjust the dosages had not been programmed in. Unfortunately, it had. The result: in the years from 1982 to 1991, 1,045 patients received insufficient radiation. Four...