Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, November 12, 1993 TAG: 9311120063
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"I believe crime begins in the crib, maybe in the womb, because of all the alcohol and drugs and dangerous sex women have these days," Harris said Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio, at a seminar about women in prison.
Harris, 70, spent 12 years in a New York prison for the 1980 murder of her lover, Dr. Herman Tarnower, author of the best-selling "Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet."
In December, New York Gov. Mario Cuomo commuted Harris' sentence, ending years of lobbying by supporters who said her work with women prisoners and their children warranted early release.
He writes the songs, but the MTV generation ain't crying. They don't know who he is.
When asked to sing backup at Monday's Barry Manilow concert, many members of the student group from Chattanooga (Tenn.) High School for the Performing Arts asked, "Who's Barry Manilow?"
Most members of the group that was asked to perform were still in the cradle when the 1970s pop star hit gold with "Mandy," "I Write the Songs," "Copacabana" and "Looks Like We Made It."
"I've never been in a situation to hear his music," said sophomore Brad Curtis.
France has bestowed one of its highest honors on beat poet Allen Ginsberg.
The 67-year-old New Yorker accepted a medal from Culture Minister Jacques Toubon making him a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.
"Your name rings like a legend, that of the Beat Generation that denounced boredom, alienation and injustice," Toubon said Wednesday.
A contemporary of Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, Ginsberg is best known for such poems as "Howl" and "Kaddish."
by CNB