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A Woburn resident reported that while attending a funeral gathering on Bolton Street, a man threw a cold drink at him, and then proceeded to kick him in the ribs and punch him repeatedly in the mouth.

Author: By Neeraj K. Gupta, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Log of Cambridge Police Activity | 2/25/1998 | See Source »

Can a life composed of second acts bring off a grand finale? Sonny Bono did just that. His opera buffa culminated in a Palm Springs, Calif., funeral in a Roman Catholic church, attended by three wives, his gay-activist daughter, conservative G.O.P. hierarchs from Washington and stand-up eulogists getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sonny Side of Life: SONNY BONO (1935-1998) | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

As rock became increasingly politicized by the end of the 1960s, the couple's popularity waned. Having spent lavishly, Sonny & Cher were broke in 1969, so Bono remade them into a nightclub act of kitsch hippiedom. By 1971 they were starring in the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, the CBS variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sonny Side of Life: SONNY BONO (1935-1998) | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

Billy Lynch, a lovely, funny man (a hopeless, lifelong drunk), is dead in middle age. His funeral is just over, and his friends and family have gathered at a quiet bar in the Bronx to forgive his ghost and congratulate his widow. So Alice McDermott sets down at the outset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Billy's Ashes | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

If the rest of the novel is simply a working out of what has been said and left unsaid at this funeral supper (congratulations to the widow are unspoken, of course), it's not the worst way to tell a story. One plot contrivance, however, seems awkward: as a young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Billy's Ashes | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

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