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...album. The song begins with Hornsby passionately stamping out a piano riff reminiscent of a Chopin piano sonata, then smoothly incorporates a complex jazz rhythm, further layering melodic fiddle and dobro movements over Fleck's subtle banjo punctuations. The climax of the song occurs as Hornsby and Fleck swap licks and playfully try to out-do each other...

Author: By Jed D. Silverstein, | Title: Fleck Tells Extraordinary Banjo `Tales' | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

...seen a lot more people with motorcycles," Millan says. Regardless, the Winthrop gang has big plans for the future. Maniatis announces confidently that as a rooming group. "We plan to have a fifteen bike collection." McPartland agrees, "We are all going to live next door to each other and swap bikes...

Author: By Claude L. Kaplan, | Title: Motorcycle Mania | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

...implausibility of this love story reflects the nature of first love. Evie and Randy perform all the time-honored rituals of young lovers; they try out each other's music, swap reading lists, and talk about their families. Beneath that, one suspects that little is there. But they persist in creating their own lovers' world, despite the dissent surrounding them. The film doesn't work too hard to escape cliches of high school life and speaks most directly to kids who are still in high school. But "Two Girls" is not about high school or lesbianism, it's about love...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: Women's Cinema Fest, On Love | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

...Babes, "the World's First Cyber Brothel," cruise the Internet. According to their literature--which is pretty hard to miss if you're online--the Babes hang out in a public "chat" zone and, if you're lucky, will accompany you to a private place where you can swap dirty messages. And while they're online, you can tap into another computer and view their fescennine photos, which are supposedly updated every six minutes. Tricia, one of the Babes, promises more nymphotech is on the way, involving a video camera hooked up to the net--and a telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VICE RAID ON THE NET | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

Certainly threads do link the most outspoken antiabortionists into a loose network. Many have signed a petition that justifies the murder of abortion doctors with arguments rooted in Christian theology. Major players are in frequent contact, sometimes through couriers to avoid possible government surveillance. They swap tactics and quietly circulate a how-to manual for clinic attacks that explains how to superglue locks, build bombs and burn clinics. Most alarming, in January a new group called the American Coalition of Life Activists released a "deadly dozen" list of abortion doctors. The Justice Department quickly dispatched U.S. marshals to protect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RHETORIC OF TERROR | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

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