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JACKSON BROWNE may well be the prototypical Southern California rock and roll star. Like the rest of the L.A. pop crowd, he's known for squeaky-clean vocals, introspection run rampant, a reliance on the studio pit crew of J.D. Souther, and Eagles Don Henley, Glenn Frey et al, and an obsession with The Road. The latter has been the dominant image in his music since his second album, both as a metaphor for change and a literal determinant of modern life. "Take It Easy" and "The Road and the Sky," from his second and third albums respectively, were...
...Wynn, who issued 1 ,775 passes in his 23-year career. (He also struck out 2,334 batters.) Many encyclopediasts pass the winter months compiling their own alltime, all-star teams. Unfortunately, most of the casts are depressingly alike: Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Cy Young, et al. Recently, however, the book has supplied names for more unique aggregations. The latest off-season base ball game consists of compiling teams with players related by name rather than achievement. There is the all-animal team: "Spider" Jorgensen, "Rabbit" Maranville, Jimmy Foxx. The all-color...
...Senator Brooke et al. want to "promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty," let them come up with some better-paying jobs...
...great number of our countrymen will not be cooking ye Xmas turkey or ye mince pie at all. They are instead preparing outlandish dishes that I can barely spelle or pronownce. These platters have such names as ortolans á la périgourdine, chausson de jambon au foie gras et truffes, polio in umido, media yemista, klephtiko charti, kalua pig, civet de lievre, poularde de Bresse a la demi-deuil, moussaka, agnello in vescica con ginepro, frit-tatas, beignets, gaufrettes, gazpacho, gefullte Schweinerippchen, pastello di pesce, dim sum, kaeng keao wan, shashlik, crudites, ratatouille, pho, ktapodi krassato, calfs head (aargh!) caillou...
...also opened stores in France and Canada; its U.K. branches now stock such previously unavailable luxury items as pure cashmere coats, glassware, fine bone china and-in the food sections -mangoes, passion fruit and a line of house-brand champagne rated on par with Moët et Chandon...