ENTERTAINMENT
March 5, 1989 | CHRIS WILLMAN
Atypical song like "Storms in Africa" on Enya's "Watermark" album has the feel of a boy soprano singing hymns in Latin against a new-age instrumental setting with backing vocals from a pop girl group. In fact, the mystery syllables are neither Latin nor even CocteauTwin-ese, but Gaelic. The elusive and entrancing "Watermark" is not a likely record to be nearing the 500,000 sales mark just two months after its release.
NEWS
December 19, 1986 | HARRY NELSON, Times Medical Writer
Pilots Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager may suffer a permanent 30% hearing loss because an electronic device designed to shield them from some engine noise in the Voyager's tiny cabin has failed, the expedition's physician said Thursday. Dr. George Jutila's comments underscored the increasing concern over the physical condition of Rutan and Yeager as they passed the halfway mark in their projected 10-day around-the-world flight without refueling.
NEWS
June 27, 2001 | BETTIJANE LEVINE, TIMES STAFF WRITER
July 24, 1999: It is the last day--in fact, the last mile--of the Axelrad family vacation. Liza Bercovici and her husband, David Axelrad, Studio City attorneys, are bicycling in Grand Teton national park with their children, Gabriella, 13, and Jake, 8. It is an empty road, a gorgeous place, a perfect finale to the annual summer excursion. "We never took vacations without the kids," Liza would later say. "Maybe we should have." A van appears. The young man at the wheel is changing a CD.