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...this is the most striking ability of Gomez--its music can't help but take the listener along with it. Just don't expect to hear them on the radio--radio doesn't cater to their type of music--you won't want to put Gomez on a mix tape, you'll want to let the whole thing play...
...this is the most striking ability of Gomez--its music can't help but take the listener along with it. Just don't expect to hear them on the radio--radio doesn't cater to their type of music--you won't want to put Gomez on a mix tape, you'll want to let the whole thing play...
...have a story to tell. And more and more, we are starting to tell it, speaking into a tape recorder or writing with pen on paper or at a computer. The act of writing about our past, says Kate Hays, a Toronto clinical psychologist, offers valuable "self-reflection, exploration, continuity and discovery." Most important, memoirs are true; they tell what happened. Frank McCourt's 1996 best seller Angela's Ashes kindled interest in the memoirs of ordinary people. Says Adam Sexton, dean of New York City's Gotham Writers' Workshop: "People read McCourt and think, 'I could do that.'" Maybe...
...Freddie Mae Baxter, born into a poor family in the rural South 75 years ago. When her mother died, the teenage Freddie Mae left for the North, seeking work as a domestic. After a lifetime of caring for others--children and old people--she started talking into a tape recorder at the behest of a writer friend named Gloria Bley Miller, recalling what it was like to grow up in a big family in a little house with no indoor plumbing; to pick cotton; to live in "jivey" 1940s Harlem. Miller edited the reminiscences, and Baxter's unique voice...
...capture of the three American soldiers. That propaganda coup was followed by another when Milosevic appeared on television in the company of moderate Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova--once rumored to be dead or in hiding. Milosevic claimed that together they were calling for a political solution, but the tape may have been old footage from some previous meeting...