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...might be running from her parents, or she might just be running from herself. She won't really say which, referring in broad strokes to a middle- class background, private schools, piano and trumpet lessons. At 13 she modeled for a local hair salon. "I had such beautiful long blond hair," she says. Now her hair is cut short and tinged with purple dye. She wears a small silver ring in her nose, combat boots and a white T shirt on which she has written with a marker a message to the tourists she panhandles: I'd rather hear...
...ashtrays full of cigarette butts make the place look lived-in, while a perfectly dreadful late "50s color scheme renders the ugly interpersonal relations in the play all the uglier. And little touches like vinyl-covered kitchen chairs and a screen behind which Jimmy can be seen playing the trumpet in a blue light give the set professional polish. Ed Rosenberg does an admirable job with light and sound in these trumpet-playing scenes, but he would be well-advised to do more, as the boring scene transitions could use some music...
...upcoming issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. But when a study says that having an abortion can increase a woman's risk of getting breast cancer, science cannot be guaranteed silence. Months before the report's scheduled publication this week, pro-life groups laid plans to trumpet the seven-year study's findings. In the opposition camp, pro-choice groups marshaled the statistics they needed to defuse the new findings. As the release date neared, editors at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer learned of the report, broke an embargo and rushed the results into print a week ahead...
After a year, Roney finally had some luck. He played at a tribute to Davis, the trumpet's reigning genius, and the honoree was in the wings that night. He was impressed. "He asked me what kind of trumpet I had," Roney recalls, "and I told him none. So he gave...
...giving way to an age of anxiety about disease. It's getting harder to enjoy a meal, make love or even take a walk in the woods without a bit of fear in the back of the mind. No wonder people pay an unreasonable amount of attention when tabloids trumpet headlines about "flesh-eating bacteria." And no wonder Stephen King's The Stand, a TV mini-series based on his novel about a "superflu" that ravages the world's population, earned some of the year's highest ratings...