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...popular - McLaren perfected his sloganeering with declarations like IT'S GONNA END IN TEARS. The formula seems to be working: Stella McCartney, Madonna and Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke have all clad their offspring in Nippaz gear, and McLaren has received orders from as far afield as the Virgin Islands and Australia. Meanwhile, Walker's line of punk rock lullabies is booming. In 2002, the expectant father was looking for some music his newborn son could fall sleep to, and was horrified by the choices on offer. So he set about rerecording his favorite punk tracks - including the Clash...
...moment that captured the essence of the old Barlow came in his performance of “Mary,” another Emoh gem. The song is a wryly blasphemous tale in which the narrator claims to have had a fruitful affair with the Virgin Mary. “Thank you Mary, you saved me too/They’d stone us both if they ever knew,” he crooned with a smile, as the crowd erupted in laughter over Barlow’s proof that he’s as edgy as ever...
...memory of her daughter Sarah, an independent filmmaker who died last year at age 32. Ruth amassed 27 cartons of materials related to Sarah's work for the archives at New York University's film library, her enthusiasm undimmed by such risqu titles as Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore. She responds to fan e-mail and keeps meticulous records of press clippings. "So many people remembered Sarah and were moved by her that letters keep coming," Ruth says. "In a way that makes it easier, but it's hard because I'm constantly reminded of the things Sarah...
DIED. SISTER LUCIA DE JESUS DOS SANTOS, 97, the last survivor of three children who claimed in 1917 to have seen apparitions of the Virgin Mary near the Portuguese village of Fatima, which has become a pilgrimage site for millions annually; at her convent in Coimbra, Portugal. At age 10, she and two cousins said the Virgin offered revelations to them on the 13th day of every month from May through October. Though the children were jailed in efforts to get them to retract, church officials, after an exhaustive investigation, lent legitimacy to the visions in 1930 by calling them...
...DIED. SISTER LUCIA DE JESUS DOS SANTOS, 97, the last of three shepherd children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in apparitions near the Portugese village of Fatima, since then a pilgrimage site for millions; at her convent in Coimbra, Portugal. In 1917, at age 10, she and two cousins said the Virgin offered revelations to them on the 13th of every month for five months. Though the children were jailed in efforts to get them to retract, church officials, after an exhaustive investigation, lent legitimacy to the visions in 1930 by calling them "worthy of belief...