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...Pete Farndon was strung out and couldn't admit he was a junkie," Hynde says, reflecting on her old colleague and former lover. Eventually, he had to be dismissed from the band, and Hynde last saw him at Honeyman-Scott's funeral. "He was terribly bitter and resentful. He felt like 'You fired me, but Jim's the one who died from drugs.' Ten months later," she adds, "Pete had drowned in the bath-tub with a needle sticking out of his arm." No stranger to indulgence herself ("I used to take any kind...
...Crimson held a 2-1 edge after five innings, but Rivera's leadoff drive over the left field fence quickly signalled the beginning of Eagle starter Carl Anderson's end. Two cuts later DiCesare, Lyman. McAndrews and center fielder Bruce Weller strung together four singles to give Harvard a 5-1 lead. Then came Kay's later, and Anderson left the game trailing...
...symbols, rather than direct action or dialogue. The images cluster around different kinds of longing of nostalgia--Gortchakov is homesick for Russia; dream-like memory-sequences begin to intrude into the story. Eventually, the subconscious, the memories, unarticulated desires, and dreams all but overwhelm reality, dream-sequences are strung together with a reality that, in turn, is becoming progressively more and more dream-like...
Jackson takes me outside to the back. The patio is made of perfectly placed brown bricks. A tree is strung, with tiny white lights. We turn to look at the house. It too is outlined with tiny white lights, which trace squares along the Tudor lines. "The Tivoli lights," says Jackson. In the back courtyard there is an old-fashioned red popcorn cart, the kind you see at country fairs with pretty gold lettering on the sides. Jackson wants to show me the swimming pool. A wall behind it has four fountainheads carved like bearded Neptunes spouting water from puckered...
...stage is set for fantasy--literally. It is transformed into a larger-than-life garbage dump, full of oversized bicycle wheels and car tires, discarded beer bottles and cereal boxes. All of it spills over the proscenium and into the loge boxes; lights strung across the theater also contribute to the colorful chaos...