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Another tour-de-force in the big-laughs arena is "L.S.A.T.T. (Lazy Sunday afternoon table-tennis," which, too, uses a restrained combination of auto-play and slice-of-life sampling. Here, the leisurely beat serves to pace the recording of an entire table tennis match that plays in the background. "Noone home" opens with all the signs of people being in the house, and then overlays the beat with all manner of attempted communication (buzzers of every timbre, phones ringing...
...straightaway of the riverside drive, Paul could have picked up speed. How much speed? Initial reports that the speedometer was frozen on impact at 120 m.p.h. are denied by the Fayed family, who say the speedometer was at zero. French police refuse to confirm officially either claim, and auto experts say the postcrash position of a speedometer needle is an unreliable indicator of a car's final velocity. Partly on the basis of the condition of the car at impact, police speculate that the Mercedes arrived at the tunnel entrance--where the roadway bends and dips sharply to the left...
...work, mostly, although Yardley renders this verdict gently. A normal boy growing up in Watertown, N.Y., Exley took some hits during his senior year in high school--the death of his football-hero father, an auto accident that ended his own dreams of gridiron glory--and, after majoring in English at the University of Southern California, eventually became a charming monster of self-indulgence. Women, beginning with his mother, lined up to mother him. He had two wives and physically abused them both. He drank incessantly: "There are people who knew him for years and never, to their knowledge...
Stephan Fantauzzo, head of Indiana's public-employee union, has seen a lot over the years, but nothing beats the day his auto mechanics came to him and said they didn't want their raises. Indianapolis had just put out to competitive bidding the business of repairing city vehicles, and that meant his workers had to bid against private companies to keep their jobs. Fantauzzo's workers were worried that they would be underbid. So they gave up their pay raises--and narrowly won the contract. The competition has brought a new efficiency to the operation: costs are down...
...Auto repair is only one of more than 70 municipal operations Indianapolis' Republican Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, the nation's leading exponent of "competing out," has spun off in five years in office. The city's wastewater-treatment plants are being run by a private company, at a projected savings of $65 million over five years. Indianapolis International Airport is now run by the British Airport Authority, which promises it will save $32 million over 10 years. Goldsmith even managed to privatize Indianapolis' 2,200-job Naval Air Warfare Center, which had landed on the Pentagon's base-closing list. With...