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...artists long past their prime. So the nominees as composers in the Song category included Bob Dylan ('60s), Randy Newman ('70s), Sting ('80s) and Bjork (summer of '93). Even the kids who loved Dylan in his first festering bloom are nearing forced-retirement age, so his win had the attic odor of a Life Achievement Award for still being alive. In his via-satellite performance of "Things Have Changed," Dylan, who turns 60 in May, looked like a desiccated Snideley Whiplash, slim mustache and all. But it was worth it to hear the geezer hipster enunciate that grand clich...
...convincing when I was a kid, in the days before the Brown decision. Coming, the other day on Fox Television, from Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the only ex-Klansman who plays the fiddle and reads Plutarch both, it seemed a period piece brought down from the attic, to the surprise and confusion of those gathered in the parlor - an item of yesteryear's genteel insincerity with the mildew of viciousness still...
...Oregon National Guard soldier, using a thermal imaging device from outside Kyollo's house, noticed unusually high levels of heat coming from inside. The soldier tipped off the cops, the cops got a warrant, and Kyolo got arrested after police found dozens of marijuana plants growing in his attic. He was using halogen lamps to grow the stuff...
...Passively, yes. But the imager, argues the plaintiff, certainly did "reveal private activities within" - use of heat lamps, which led police to get a search warrant to look for drugs in Kyllo's attic. If evidence of an abnormal heat source constitutes probable cause, so would images of Kyllo - gained through a "hypothetical sophisticated X-ray device or microphone" - lighting up a joint...
...fitting end to a week of endings and beginnings, turning pages and cutting deals, cleaning the mice out of the attic. Linda Tripp was fired from her job at the Pentagon after she refused to resign. Jesse Jackson said he would spend some time in the wilderness after a tabloid revealed he had a secret family, a hidden child. A Gore aide left this greeting on his White House voice mail: "Due to a small but significant clause in the U.S. Constitution, I will be out of the office from Jan. 21, 2001 until Jan. 20, 2005." By the time...