I. At Priestly House, a volunteer--the Episcopal pastor ' s elegant wife--gives a lecture/demonstration on women ' s clothing in the eighteenth century. She stands before us in a slip, her bra and panties outlined underneath, and dresses piece by...

Byline: MALCOLM FOLLEY Leicester 2 Chelsea 1 ROBERTO MANCINI, with wisdom born of age, has taken home photographs of Leicester players to familiarise himself with his new team-mates. Claudio Ranieri might care to broaden the practice into the Chelsea dressing...

Country singer Billy Joe Shaver surrendered Tuesday after a weekend bar shooting that wounded a man, police said.Shaver turned himself in at the McLennan County jail in Waco and was released after posting $50,000 bail, said Lorena Police Chief John Moran.Shaver, 67, was charged with...

Archaeologists in Mexico City announced plans Friday to hold tours of inaccessible buried ruins via glass-covered shafts looking down on the sites.Two daylong guided tours of the sites, known as "archaeological windows," are scheduled for April, and will take visitors to about 20 sites currently...

The title of Billy Joel's newest release, "The Stranger," may echo the Albert Camus novel, but once into it you soon discover that it is much more like a Remembrance of Things Pasta, an Italian-American nostalgia trip. True, it has a directness that Proust would probably have found appalling, but it gives the listener a unique opportunity to get into the head and feelings of a now grown-up ex-greaser through a group of songs that are at once a love letter and a farewell to youth, by tur...

It's time to find a new tag for Billy Joel. His first and biggest hit of three years ago, Piano Man, has left him with a reputation as the small, power-packed, yet sensitive rocker behind the great big concert grand. Lyrically, the album of the same name and its two successors contained a few potent references to life in the suburbs (e.g. Captain Jack). That seemed pretty unusual for a commercial recording artist these days. Thus was born tag No. 2, "suburban." It should all change with...

This man is a venomous poet…. [With "The Stranger," Billy Joel] is now turning out albums showing an originality, bite, determination and poetic strength rarely matched by his contemporaries….