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Michael Chute kindled a fire as night fell and the party was ending, and I sat down with his wife, who wore big boots and a blue bandanna that tied back long kinky hair. "We should secede," she said, almost to herself. Over her jungle-camo jacket she strung a bandolier that held what looked like the 7.62 mm rounds for her AK-47, the rifle she calls "my baby" because "it kicks just a little bit and has a deep sound." But there was nothing deadly about her ammo: the shell casings were affixed with pencil points. "The point...
...readily discernible style or persona. His songs tended to be impenetrable as well; even his moniker, Spiral Stairs, was adopted in order to give the band an air of mystery. Spiral Stairs was always secondary to Stephen Malkmus, the chief songwriter and public face, but as the 1990s wore on Kannberg became increasingly marginalized as Pavement became more and more an expression of Malkmus’ personal vision. Pavement’s final studio album, 1999’s “Terror Twilight”, contained no Spiral Stairs songs, and within two years Malkmus had launched a solo...
...victim lost a “great deal” of blood. Much of the blood-saturated clothing the victim wore to the hospital was taken for evidence, according to the report. The victim received a CAT scan at the hospital...
...Does that affect what they wear? It affected my community when I grew up. Many Mennonites wear old-fashioned hats, aprons and so on. But those tend to be the group called the Old Mennonites. I grew up among the Mennonite Brethren, and they just wore conservative clothes that you wouldn't necessarily stop and stare at on the street. Back then I wasn't allowed to wear jeans. My mom felt that skirts gave more glory...
Guests’ attire helped recall an earlier era of Quincy’s history. Dressed in a style particular to the 1950s, men in attendance wore jackets, and women were clad in dresses, dancing in the dimly-lit dining hall...