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...more recent example: in 1996 the whole world east of Dublin and west of the Shannon doubted that Irish swimmer Michelle Smith was clean, as a hulking version of her prior self had lowered her times astonishingly. Her success coincided with her marriage to a former discus thrower from the Netherlands who had been kicked out of his own sport as a drug cheat. But Smith won four medals in Atlanta, three of them gold, while passing all her exams. She then dodged random testing for two years before being confronted one dawn at her County Kilkenny home. She reluctantly...
Nature sometimes has suicidal impulses. This year in the American West, it has set itself on fire--fire's version of The Perfect Storm, a convergence of dry summer lightning, blast-furnace air and millions of acres of tinder. The worst is yet to come...
...They just don't want this movie to portray all the good things they've done," Daley said about the real league's players and volunteer coaches. Public schools CEO Paul Vallas questioned why so many adolescent extras weren't in class, and branded the film "the Clockwork Orange version of The Bad News Bears." The producers couldn't have pitched it better themselves...
...change the way you look at your world. Ware captures landscapes made to flatten emotion--a clinic shrouded in snow, a sterile apartment complex--and yet shows the reader the meaning and even beauty in every glimpse from a highway, every snippet of small talk. His is a graphic version of the anomie found in a Raymond Carver short story, with a social-historic sweep and unexpected, if fleeting, grace notes. And that may be this melancholy book's uplifting message: even in the most emotionally barren settings, there is still something not to deaden us but to make...
...Experience" CDs take the listener out on the road, into the studio and almost into the head of Hendrix: There's an early version of "Hey Joe" in which we hear him tell his producer to turn down the backing vocals; there's an instrumental called "Slow Blues," which is billed as the last multitrack recording he ever made. The song cuts off suddenly and too soon, like Hendrix's life. It's fascinating to compare early versions of songs like "Foxey Lady" with the takes that became famous. Hendrix was a wild spirit onstage - sometimes playing guitar with...