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...stepson by his second wife. This young man has sneaked drugs into a good friend's sandwich, hoping to initiate him without his consent into the wonders of hallucinogenic insights. What happens instead is that the friend and victim, temporarily left alone by Edward, walks out of a window and falls to his death. Once the authorities and newspapers finish raking over the details of this tragic accident, "Edward passed out of the public eye into his private hell...
...Potter on guitar, the singers work their way through ten songs of love, loss, reminiscence and resolution. If that sounds like a predictable country combination, the record nevertheless comes alive from adept musicianship and vocals that ease around, then animate the lyrics like a spring breeze blowing a window curtain. The album gives the impression of a kind of spiritual centering the Judds draw not just from music but from the way they live. "We are two generations," says Naomi, "and we play off each other." She listens to and learns from Elvis, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell...
Rockwell's eldest son, Jarvis, is pictured in the scene with his back to the dingy window. All around are other Rockwell touches: the sad-eyed but deeply moved traveler in the top left corner, the man of affairs with his cigar and the New York Times in the lower left. And in the center of the painting is the little boy with his floppy ears, sheared neck and Sunday best, edged off-center on his chair to get away from the slightly menacing young men with their cigarettes and to be nearer his only earthly security of the moment...
...vision of the world. "I was very proud when he asked to do my portrait and was walking on air when I was given the finished portrait. He did it in a suite in the Madison Hotel in Washington. He stood me in the light he wanted from a window, then engaged me in conversation and now and then asked me to turn my head. This is the only Rockwell I have...
...recalls Halas' trials 30 years ago with Doug Atkins, the prototype of the freethinking Bear as well as the only player who ever outcussed the old man. "He was undoubtedly the greatest defensive end in football," Halas explained later. "You're not going to throw a championship out the window trying to discipline a guy like that." At one point this season there was some question whether Ditka and McMahon were even talking. "That's ridiculous," Ditka said. "Just the other day I told him on the sidelines, 'Shut up.' " But when the Rams game fell on a blowy...