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Khatol's greatest joy remains parachute jumping. She has always loved the way the wind feels whipping against her face and the thrill of the free fall before her parachute opens and carries her safely to the ground. She did her first jump in six years in March as part of the official celebration of Nawroz, the Afghan new-year holiday that the Taliban had banned. She was supposed to land in the Kabul stadium, but the helicopter mistakenly dropped her in a nearby field instead. Unfazed, she gathered up her parachute, hailed a battered old taxi and rode...
...shake my nerves and you rattle my brain Too much love drives a man insane You broke my will But what a thrill Goodness gracious! Great balls o' fire! -recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis, October...
...sundered heart of his music: a wrasslin' match between the Deity and the Devil. Jerry Lee, whose cousin is the evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, has often said he is a man of God doing Satan's work. His music, beginning with "Whole Lotta Shakin'," imparts much of the thrill and dread of someone who has taken the Lord's gift and twisted it to make rock 'n roll gold...
...repeated four times in the first verse, and Van Eaton's drums emphasizing the musical statement, as JLL itemizes a lover's complaint, "You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain..." Mid-rant, he muses that passion has its perverse perks ("You broke my will, but what a thrill"), before surrendering to ecstatic inanity: "Goodness gracious! Great balls of fire!" The second verse, which explains the singer's agitation as an agreeable form of sexual psychosis, punctuates the news with three right-hand arpeggios, while the bass drum is joined by a foreground tapping (presumably...
...years after she first earned her pilot's license, Lee still gets excited when she talks about flying. She is one of the few women certified to fly aviation's biggest bird, the Boeing 747. "It's a pilot's ego plane," she says. "I still get a thrill out of cranking it up and taking off for distant places...