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...cough syrup the whole time."... I think Garth Brooks' recent retirement is a bit of a hoax. He's still desperate to break that Beatles' sale record, so he'll lay low and then pull a "comeback" stunt in a couple of years to massive acclaim. How do I know? Because during his "retirement," his record company will rerelease each of his six albums and bring out new versions of some old songs in order to inch him closer to the Beatles' tally... I want to go to Madonna's party! She's throwing a fiesta at the Roseland Ballroom...
...Surprises"), Kafkaesque visions ("Paranoid Android"), obligatory condemnatory ballads ("Karma Police," "Lucky") and a pleasingly incongruous-yet-wicked-good rock song ("Electioneering") assembled a musical line-up so good that one instantly forgave the band for the tiresome poem "Fitter Happier" occupying the seventh track of the album. The unanimous acclaim OK Computer received and subsequent appearance on every music magazine's "Top 10 albums of the Year" lists (as well as on countless top-10-albums-of-all-time lists) left music-lovers and critics alike standing over Radiohead's ashes and wondering what their fourth release would bring...
DIED. ABRAHAM PAIS, 82, physicist and science historian; in Copenhagen. After surviving Nazi persecution in Holland, Pais conducted research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Later in life he won broad acclaim for his biography of Albert Einstein and essays on other scientists...
...final novel from the celebrated author who died last December tracks, sometimes amusingly and always relentlessly, the decline of literary inventiveness. Eugene Pota, an author in his 70s, knew success and acclaim in his youth, and wants to make their acquaintance one more time. But nothing he begins writing, including the further adventures of Tom Sawyer and the story of God's wife, strikes him as worth pursuing. The one thing he refuses to consider doing is a novel about a novelist, a category he deems "already passe." The joke is on Pota; he doesn't realize that...