CSNY, NEIL YOUNG HAVE FANS' LOYALTY.Dear L.A. Life: This response is regarding Bob Strauss' Feb. 14, 2000, article (``CSNY CSNY Crosby Stills Nash and Young (band) not what they used to be''). Pardon me forgive me; excuse me; - a phrase used also to express courteous denial or contradiction, or to request forgiveness for a mild transgression, such as bumping a person while passing. See also: Pardon , but WHERE WERE YOU? Obviously not at the same concert. CSNY was awesome before and are still great now! While they certainly look different then they did 20 years ago (don't we all - I am SURE that YOU do!), they still sounded wonderful, and their new CD shows that CSNYstill has what it takes! You, sir, are either too young to appreciate them or just old and jealous jeal·ous adj. 1. Fearful or wary of being supplanted; apprehensive of losing affection or position. 2. a. Resentful or bitter in rivalry; envious: jealous of the success of others. . CSNY ROCKS! You, on the other hand, don't! Barbara Vispy Dear L.A. Life: I loved David Kronke's article on unreleased Neil Young stuff (Feb. 14). He seems to be as much of an admirer of the Neiler as the next guy. But please don't guide people to eBay to look for unreleased material. Scalpers Scalpers A person trading in the equities or options and futures market who holds a position for a very short period of time, attempting to make money off of the bid-ask spread. are selling stuff on eBay for embarrassing prices, and it's so much easier to join an e-mail list and get what you want there, often just for a couple of bucks worth of blank cassettes or CD-R's. Don't endorse eBay, because many on that list are trying to rip off the real fans, and the real fans don't like that ... Jesper Kallstrom Sweden We're looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. love in all the wrong books Dear L.A. Life: Regarding your cover story about sex manuals (``Sex by the book,'' L.A. Life, Feb. 13), maybe the problem is that all of these manuals all focus on sex but not one of them focuses on intimacy. Dolores Dolores (or Delores) was a common given name (until the 1960s in the USA); it is cognate with the English word "dolorous" (meaning sorrowful) and equivalent in meaning. Long Van Nuys |
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