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...life elsewhere in the universe. As an optimist by temperament and as a betting man, I allow that certain features of the natural world would lead me to place my chips on yes if someone forced me to wager. But I also know the difference between a pure flutter based on hope and a smart play based on genuine probabilities...
...Waddell to define her style and without the flutter of an eyelash she unrolls a crisp definition: a combination of Mary Quant, Monrian, '60s mod and Versace. She likes to use polyesters because they wash easily and vinyls even though they don't. She looks for combinations of colors and textures on the right side of flashy-bright and spectacular without being glitzy. She can be quite experimental in her choice of materials, constructing pants and jackets from yellow caution tape or police line. Despite the repetitive warnings of these pieces, Waddell's clothing crosses artistic boundaries, erring even into...
...However, the harder edged songs like the first single "Can't Change Me," "Flutter Girl" and "Steel Rain" contained a dose of emotion and life that was undeniable and mesmerizing. And even though Cornell nodded to his past (with Soundgarden's "Like Suicide" and Temple Of The Dog's "All Night Thing"), the songs had enough of a unique spin on them to make them sound like fresh compositions...
...their girlfriends' Bills, Bills, Bills. Hip-hop soul singer Mary J. Blige, on her enjoyable new CD, Mary (MCA), continues the tradition. Blige sees through men and their cheatin' ways; she reads them, thumbing through them like magazines in a dentist's office, until their true feelings flutter out like subscription cards...
...Cornell tests set off a flutter of concern not only for the survival of the monarchs--already threatened by logging in their winter roosts in the mountains west of Mexico City and by pesticides in their Cornbelt breeding grounds--but also over our increasing dependence on high-tech, genetically engineered food crops. "This is a heads-up," warns entomologist Fred Gould of North Carolina State University...