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ENYA: SHEPHERD MOONS (Reprise). Gaelic music of a different sort. Enya sounds like Sinead O'Connor after an overdose of chill pills; her songs seem, at first hearing, like the ideal background for stores that sell granola and wind chimes. But hang in. Enya mixes New Age with space age and Irish mysticism, and there is supple witchery here...
...Gilligan may have left herself wide open to misinterpretation," Faludi wrote. "After disavowing generalizations about either sex, she seems to make them herself." Faludi also felt that the backgrounds and situations of the subjects Gilligan examined were not stressed enough. "Gilligan's 'studies' were not exactly drawn from ideal demographic samples," she wrote...
...came last week in Geneva, where Saccoccia, 35, was arrested with his wife (and reputed confederate) Donna, carrying $500,000 in cash. Yet that is mere pocket change for precious-metals traders, whose enormous cash transactions make them ideal fronts for laundering. "A precious-metals dealer may buy and sell hundreds of millions of dollars of gold in a year in numerous transactions, show a minimal profit, produce limited business records that appear legitimate and not raise suspicion," explains Dennis Fortune, a money- laundering expert and 24-year IRS veteran...
...three decades he was Hollywood's ideal bachelor, a handsome, self-assured man who retained just enough boyish shyness to melt a woman's heart. There was always a pretty actress on his arm and usually one of some consequence, like Leslie Caron, Diane Keaton, Julie Christie, Madonna. Often boulevardiers get a bit threadbare in their 50s, but Beatty, 54, kept finding the beauties. Then last summer came the shocking announcement. No, he wasn't marrying (at least not yet), but he was having a child with intelligent, glamorous Annette Bening...
...years. The bureau's physicists had conducted extensive tests of high explosives inside the mountain, setting off as many as 64 sticks (34 lbs.) of dynamite at a time. Studies of the resultant impact and shock waves on the rock structure convinced them that the site would make an ideal superbunker. An April 1953 bureau study concluded that "the rock in the area . . . is exceptionally hard and tight." There were few faults or fissures; most of the rock was epidosite and greenstone, a local name for a Precambrian basalt that had metamorphosed into an extremely dense formation...