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precious-things-digest        Monday, 29 July 1996        Volume 01 : Number 140

                               Today's Subjects:
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       WashPost 1980
       Review of Portland, Oregon shows
       Re: WashPost 1980

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From: "Donald G. Keller" <dgk@interport.net>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 12:31:04 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: WashPost 1980

Thanks to Richard for posting that 1980 Washington Post piece; that's an 
important document. Interesting "before" portrait...

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From: Richard Handal <handal@access.digex.net>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 13:02:18 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Review of Portland, Oregon shows

I finally found time to finish the review I was working on for the amazing
night with two shows in Portland, Oregon. Before I sent it in to RDT, I
sent a copy privately to Mike Whitehead, and he already managed to slap it
up on his wonderful tour reference site. It's longer than I feel
comfortable posting to Precious Things and ToriNews, (unless the
respective list owners really tell me they would like that), so I'm just
giving out the URL for it, here. Anyone without web access let me know if
you want a copy, and I'll send one to you in email. 

There's also another lovely review of the same night on there, which was
touching to read. There's even a copy of the Oregonian newspaper review,
which I'd managed to track down two days later in a Seattle newsstand, and
of which I now have an electronic copy.  :-)  Mike's site is an excellent
reference source. He filled a definite gap when he created it. 

All this can be found at: 

http://www.win.net/mikewhy/tourjuly.html#port2

Mike put this note on top of it: 

   Note From Mikewhy: This is long but worth the read I assure you :)

Thanks, Mike. 

Tori Amos Forever. 

Richard Handal

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From: Richard Handal <handal@access.digex.net>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 13:20:42 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: WashPost 1980

On July 28, 96 12:31:04 pm "Donald G. Keller" said: 

> Thanks to Richard for posting that 1980 Washington Post piece; that's an 
> important document. Interesting "before" portrait...

You're quite welcome. I'd been meaning to get that for a long time, as it
was referred to in the bio _All These Years_ as a "December 1980 issue of
the Washington Post." When I was having lunch in San Jose with Greg and
Violet after the Tori soundcheck meeting, I told them I was going to slog
through the Post microfilm when I had a chance to and find it. Hence my
personal note to them.  ;-)  (Violet found herself ordering Chicken
Cacciatore, which was hilarious.) 

I know people are busy--I'm busy--but it's kinda surprising to me that no
one had turned that up before as it had been mentioned in print, when
clearly a few minutes at a microfilm reader would bear sweet fruit. Funny. 
Glad to do what I can.

Now that I've given the date and page number, anyone else can now go get
the microfilm at a library near where they live and have the photo, too. 
:-)  She looks more like the Tori we know now in that photo than in any
other photos I've seen from that era. And she's got, as a woman I know who
went to junior high with her always calls it, "that million-dollar smile."

Richard Handal

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