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Thursday • November 13,
► People in the News
Rumors of Paz’s
death a fallacy
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Octavio Paz
spoke on national television to deny
rumors of his death, and he did it
with panache.
“The art of dying is the art of play
ing hide and seek," the ailing Mexi
can poet said Tuesday night in a
hoarse voice. “It is one of the most
delicate and difficult games, so you
have to know how to play it well.”
The rumor was carried by a Euro
pean news agency earlier that night
and quickly retracted.
“It pains me that those who in
sist on killing me are in such a hur
ry," the 83-year-old Nobel laureate
joked by telephone on Mexico's
Televisa network.
Paz has been suffering from an
undisclosed illness. He said he is
feeling better but his disease was a
“long and wretched” one.
Mexican newspapers carried
front-page stories on the incident, in
cluding the capital daily La Jornada
underthe headline: “Learn to Smile.”
“The Labyrinth of Solitude,” a
book-length essay probing his na
tion’s soul, is probably his best-
known work outside Mexico.
Possible tour in
Streisand’s future
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Will Bar
bra Streisand tour again? Any
thing’s possible, her spokesman
said Wednesday.
“There definitely is contemplation
of a tour in 1998. What I’ve heard
speculated is a few cities in Europe
and possibly Australia,” Dick
Guttman said when asked about re- |
ports that New York concerts were i
on the list.
“There is nothing planned in the j
U.S. right now,” he said. “There is no
question that there is interest. Any-
thing’s possible.”
Streisand last toured in 1994 and
her new album “High Ground,” a col
lection of inspirational love songs
dedicated to President Clinton's late
mother, went on sale Tuesday.
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Wakeland
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we’re doing on our own. W(
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survive without Giant by theirsil
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is we think long term,” Nunezsl
in a press release. “We alwayskn*
everything we ever got we
have to earn.”
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only new experience for the ban
Sullivan said their live shov
more focused, their songwrit
more intricate, and their soun<
more acoustic.
“Before, our sound was a
heavier, but now it’s more of
acoustic thing,” Sullivan said,
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more. I think it gets the mess
across better. We used to
pound it out.”
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change that matters, but the wb
texture of the music. “Our soi
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tie more groovy. Our old stuf
faster-paced, while this is m 1
groove oriented. It’s somethingtl
people can dance to.”
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longer shows,” Sullivan said. “Wfi
doing a lot of our old stuff mixed
with the new. The new record cl
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live.”
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