Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrival of December traditionally brings cold weather, holiday television specials, and overcrowded shopping malls. At Harvard, the elections of seniors to Phi Beta Kappa also grace the final month of the year...
...history -- unspecific but unmistakable -- in her voice. No one can sing like Faithfull without deep scars. Not many can live as she has and survive. So she goes carefully now, learning how to hold tight and still let go. Listen to her latest Island album, Strange Weather, a critical favorite and a steady seller. That is evidence enough...
...both very much connected. I sing about my feelings and my truth." She has written some fine songs in the past, including (uncredited until 1984) the Stones' Sister Morphine, a jagged bit of Faithfull autobiography, and three cuts on her formidable 1979 album Broken English. But on Strange Weather she has put together a self-portrait from random sketches by such diverse artists as Jerome Kern and Bob Dylan. She makes the Otto Harbach/Jerome Kern Yesterdays into a devastating diary of faded hope and turns Dylan's superb I'll Keep It with Mine into a talisman of redemption...
Those clouds, though, could not dampen the 1987 harvest. Despite all the idle farmland, wheat production was up 1% from last year's sizable crop, to 2.1 billion bu., while the soybean crop also rose 1%, to 2 billion bu. Good weather resulted in especially strong yields in Iowa, which vaulted past Illinois to become the top producer of corn and soybeans...
...only reason most people choose to attend southern schools is a pitiable inability to cope with the trials of a New England winter. The Crimson booters have braved Ohiri wind chill all season, and remain undefeated on the year. So let Carolinians and Californians bask in 50-degree weather clear on into February--it just doesn't matter...