Word: alaine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spooky: No, I think this music is open to a whole domain of whoever listens to music in general. I try as much as possible to leave an open text. In the '60s there was a guy named Alain Robbe-Grillet, a writer who developed what he called the unbound novel, a kind of idea where the theme, the story, is kind of series of interlocking loops and repetitions. The people who actually listen to hip-hop, dance music, techno, salsa, you name it, everything is so much more diverse than the corporations would have you think or the radio...
...sparked. Though the New York Times says that "the streets will be littered with lists like this when the millennium comes, and when the millennium goes they will be swept into piles and forgotten," others put a more positive angle on the spats sparked by the list. Alain de Botton says, quite poetically, that "in disagreeing with the judges' choices, we define our own identities as readers. Perhaps the best lists should annoy us most." If this is true, Random House has certainly succeeded...
...didn't have to be this way, says Dr. Paul Ellwood, 71, the man who invented the phrase "health-maintenance organization" and who, along with Stanford University economist Alain Enthoven, developed much of the theory behind managed care. From his ranch in Wyoming, Ellwood sounds like a broken man, and in a too literal sense he is. He was thrown from a horse last month, fracturing his neck. (No, he was not paralyzed or treated by managed care.) The painful healing process has given him a lot of time to consider how disappointed he is with the system he helped...
...Alain L. Sanders and Dara Horn
...Alain L. Sanders. Reported by Melissa August and Wendy King/Washington