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...tennis courts and a nearby golf course. Weekends bring barbecues or softball games. And in the evenings, residents watch satellite TV, the latest episode of Friends sometimes interrupted by the faint chatter of machine-gun fire?a sound that causes unease, but only a little, like a clap of thunder from a faraway rainstorm...
...summers ago, when my wife Luci and I split a house with others at the Jersey shore, we had taken in a few Trenton Thunder games. A kid named Garcia-something was playing short for the Sox Double-A club that year, and he was worth watching. I was charmed by the lovely riverside ballfield, and the family-friendly feel of the games. There was a big, stuffed, Double-A quality mascot named Boomer and several Double-A quality contests between innings. I could tell a new science was being applied to minor league games; no doubt this was behind...
...talking to Hooker just a few years back. I had called him up to interview him about his latest album. Even over the phone his voice had a sonorousness that had one reaching for nature metaphors in order to describe it: echoes in underground caverns, waves booming against shorelines, thunder rolling overhead. Hooker was 79 then, and his health was starting to fail. I asked if he planned to do any touring anytime soon. "I'll go out once in a while," Hooker told me. He added: "I've paid my dues...
...McGuckins remained in the house for the rest of the week, with their dogs about them, with a shotgun, rifles and handguns beside them, with 200 lbs. of food--a recent pickup from a food bank--to sustain them, even as a Pacific front brought rain, strong winds and thunder, ripping branches off trees and chasing sailboats off the lake. The police kept their distance, mindful of the mishandling of the 1992 incident in nearby Ruby Ridge, where FBI agents killed the wife and son of white separatist Randy Weaver...
...moment of silence, please, for Mrs. Tom Cruise. for a decade she served with honors as a celebrity wife. She made her own films when schedules permitted and appeared alongside her husband in Days of Thunder (the 1990 race-car flick on which they met), Far and Away and Eyes Wide Shut. Clasping Cruise's hand, she walked a lot of red carpet. She was always at his side, raising two children, suing the tabloids. She will be missed. Last February Cruise announced that their marriage was coming to an end. "It was a big shock for me," says...