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...Bush's toughest warning yet that if necessary the U.S. will use force to free Kuwait. Three days later at the White House, Bush delivered another admonition to Saddam. Iraqi troops in Kuwait had just raided the embassy compounds of France, Canada, Belgium and the Netherlands, briefly detaining five Western consuls, including an American, and spiriting away three French citizens to an unknown location. After calling the incident an "outrageous Iraqi break-in," Bush resisted reporters' efforts to make him issue sweeping threats. "You're trying to get me to sound like I'm rattling sabers," he said. "When...
...making a direct assault on the heartstrings, singing in a kind of simonized tenor suitable for both serenades and bust outs. His debut album, Garth Brooks, is No. 2, right behind Killin' Time, and has spent about half a year in the Top Ten. Last month Brooks pulled down five nominations from the Country Music Association, and Black landed four. That's a good year's work for both, and good news for Nashville...
Other performers might talk a little about the bad times and all the frustrations; Brooks describes a scene that sounds like Jack Nicholson's famous freak-out in Five Easy Pieces. "Sitting in the parking lot of a damn fire station back in Hendersonville, Tenn., beating my head as hard as I could because I had snapped, and Sandy screaming at me to quit. I was crying, she was crying. I calmed down, and we went back home." Half a year later, Brooks signed with Capitol Records...
MARCUS ROBERTS: DEEP IN THE SHED (Novus). Now on his own after five years with the Wynton Marsalis band, this blind, bluesy, brilliant pianist is out with a gem of an album that showcases his skills as a composer as well as his stylish work at the keyboard...
...CIVIL WAR (PBS, Sept. 23-27). For five consecutive nights, Ken Burns' 12- hour documentary series will chronicle the nation's bloodiest conflict, using interviews, archival footage and readings by such people as Morgan Freeman and Jason Robards from documents...