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...tour in support of her new EP Please Do Not Disturb. Along with a cold picked up last week in Australia, Hatfield seemed slightly ill at ease--perhaps with the prospect of a national tour looming ahead, a new band member's aggressive stage presence (red-jumpsuited bassist Mike Welsh) or the daunting prospect of signing with a new label. Though she delivered an eclectic and technically adept set, Hatfield failed to electrify her listeners as she has done so often in the past. Abandoning her usual witty repore with the audience, Hatfield barely interacted with the mildly soggy mass...
DIED. VISCOUNT TONY-PANDY, 88, silver-tongued Speaker of the British House of Commons from 1976 to 1983, whose Welsh-accented "Order! Order!" set the tone for parliamentary debate; in Cardiff, Wales...
...editor of PEOPLE magazine, I was charged with covering every move she made, and one night some years ago, because the magazine had made a substantial contribution to whatever charity it was, I was Princess Diana's "escort" to a benefit performance of Falstaff by the Welsh National Opera. When I first met her that night, I thought I'd cut the ice with a little self-deprecating humor along the lines of how it was I who had perpetrated such insanely thorough coverage of her in America. So as I shook her hand I said, "Yes, I admit...
...drug use is rampant and sex is graphic, brutish and usually anal. We are in Trainspotting territory here. The pseudo-family of down-and-out drug-users and drifters in Shopping are--like the characters in Trainspotting, a stage version of which preceded the film (both based on Irvine Welsh's novel)--the alienated youth of Britain, uneasily poised between self-fulfillment and self-degradation, displaced, directionless and dispossessed...
...give an overpowering performance. Still, for two years, Jones has doggedly defended McVeigh, and he may have played the hand dealt him as best he could. "Before anyone should say Jones has done a bad job, you have to consider what he has to work with," says Welsh White, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh who has followed the trial. "The prosecution does have a strong case, and I think they've presented it well. Jones has to try what's available...