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Company spokesmen said the new, bigger firm will be better able to avoid a takeover. Said Moet-Hennessy Chairman Alain Chevalier, who will head it: "It was like one of those love affairs that lead quickly to the altar." And are toasted only by the finest of champagnes...
...music at the end of the 1970s. Their blend of the visceral and the experimental, grinding guitars and synthesized textures, spawned an outrageous number of disciples in the American and British underground. Bands as diverse as Sonic Youth, 100 Flowers, Sorry, and R.E.M. all pay homage at the Wire altar. Brilliant albums such as The Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154, the holy trinity of progressive rock, forever ensured Wire's place at the pinnacle of modern music...
...trade deficit through tougher legislation, including retaliatory measures against countries that refuse to open their markets to U.S. goods. He said last week, "People sitting in cushy offices, in secure jobs, have no right to tell workers on assembly lines that their livelihoods have to be sacrificed on the altar of a false and rigid free-trade ideology...
...decided, in vague tracery, that the gazelle's grace was associated in the Masai mind with God's grace, a profound though punning link, and that by eating of the flesh of the gazelle, the Masai thought to partake of the grace of God. A pagan chinging of the altar bells, a transubstantiation...
Closest to the altar room a group of male Hare Krishnas, singing this mantra, were bobbing about in a mild form of skinhead slamdancing, the crowd echoing them with a subdued backup. Cymbals clanged rhythmically, accompanied by the slurping bass boom of the zeppelin-shaped drums which hung from the devotees necks. Hanging on the walls were brightly colored oil paintings of similar goings-on the same drums, haircuts and robes, with the addition of the blue-skinned figure of Krishna...