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Marvin Gaye, just like Diana Ross, the Temptations, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder, had a special right to carry the Motown torch. Hired as a drummer for Smokey Robinson, Gaye instantly began a career as a soloist that culminated in his rise as one of the first Motown stars daring to criticize the Establishment. He challenged the war with "What's Going On?," lashed out at pollution with "Mercy, Mercy Me," and called for hope by recording, with Tammi Terrell, the Ashford and Simpson hit "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." His songs also influenced later white artists; the Rolling...
...scars Of their first debut were beginning to heal They're back at out throats with evangelist zeal. Enough is enough: I'm beginning to cry From all of the dreck that's assaulting my eye. Oh. Doctor, this magazine sure needs a cure. But only a blow-torch could render it pure. I'd throw it out, in the compactor yet. But they're going to publish a bound volume set. Oh, they're stronger than me. They'll print volume seven, While I grumble and gripe from a cloud up in heaven...
...resumed the run, the referendum was over, but the publicity given their detention prompted an emotional out pouring of support. A throng of 25,000 people turned out for an antigovernment rally. Aquino halted the run for a four-day rest, but vowed that he would carry a lighted torch all the way to the tarmac where his brother died...
...accidents like Jackson's are hardly unprecedented. Laurence Olivier, while shooting the movie Lady Hamilton in 1940, had his wig accidentally set afire by a torch; he escaped serious injury. But the toll seems to have burgeoned with the technology. Erik Estrada was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident on the set of TV's CHiPs in 1979. Another TV star, Peter Barton, suffered third-degree burns over 18% of his body in 1981 while filming his sci-fi series The Powers of Matthew Star. Dozens of stunt people and technicians have been involved in less publicized mishaps...
...alone before." Thus it was in 1973, after divorcing her second husband, that Deirdre Blomfield-Brown decided to change her name and her life by beginning a novitiate in the 2,500-year-old tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Today Ane Pema Cho-dron, 47, whose name means "lotus dharma torch," is executive director of a meditation center in Boulder, Colo., and probably the only American woman to have been fully ordained as a Buddhist nun. The mother of two children and a former elementary school teacher in California and New Mexico, Chodron followed the path of enlightenment to Hong Kong...