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...Leon Russell evergreen, A Song for You, and follows it with an intense rendering of None of Us Are Free. The latter expands on the opening cut in a way that's both more pointed and more poignant, with an Eric Clapton guitar solo that complements Charles' anvil- hard vocal and leavens the message with saving lyricism...
...That season," Crystal says, "lifted an anvil off my heart. It made other things possible." Like working his way up the emcee ladder from the Grammys to the Oscars. The Oscars were thrilling for the kid who once sat glued to the black-and-white set with the family, shrieking, "There's Loretta Young! Look, over there, Alan Ladd's getting out of that limo!" His mother Helen remembers Billy grasping his toothbrush like a mike, "thanking all the little people who made this possible." In the morning, she would put notes under the cereal bowl -- "Gregory Peck...
...host of The Tonight Show. And the good news for us is, we get Stump the Band." This hoariest of Carson time fillers is no silver medal for Letterman, in his 10th year as star of his own NBC chatfest. The world had long known that the anvil-jawed Leno, Tonight's exclusive guest host since 1987, was bound to succeed Carson. But press tattle hinted that Letterman, who gave Leno his first sustained TV exposure, was furious at not being offered the job. One source told the Washington Post that Letterman planned to sue NBC to break his contract...
...form will depend upon their power to make it new, as Ezra Pound used to say, to take full command of new resources and navigate some fishy waters. In the '80s color clinched its victory. The gravity of black-and-white, the hard and durable tones of an anvil, gave way decisively. But color is tricky. Blood shouts, and the smallest patch of yellow adobe pounds hard on the retina. So a generation of photographers have learned to draw that very clamor into a deliberate statement. The hot pinks and fluorescent lime in Alex Webb's pictures of Haiti...
Silvera leads a team in the Lyman Labs that is using a high-pressure diamond anvil to crush together a palladium and deuterium cell. Silvera says their first test, which failed to release heat or emit subatomic particles that are expected by-products of fusion, could have failed because of accidental leaking by the liquid deuterium...