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...impossible to remember them all. And that’s what I’m thinking as I walk up Holyoke Street and wonder why this girl is smiling at me. Whoever she is, she sure looks glad to see me—there’s a billboard-wide grin on her face, and she’s practically barreling into my arms. I start to smile back blankly and my mind races like Guy Pearce’s in Memento. Do I KNOW this person? Think! Think! Who IS this...
...modern home, growing in size in proportion to one's SUV, filled with technology for those too lazy even to open their window blinds and flooded with the mind-numbing drivel of billboard-size televisions, seems more a reflection of the external world's chaos than an escape from it [LIFESTYLE, Oct. 14]. Sadly, as you noted, this new American home is not about "family cohesion" but about "accommodating different lifestyles." It may not be the American Dream, but I like my cozy walls, miniature television and blinds that I actually walk across the room to adjust. JENNY WISNIEWSKI Wauwatosa...
...former cocktail waitress from Burleston, Texas, who won Fox's American Idol talent contest along with a record deal with RCA, hit the royalties jackpot with A Moment Like This, the song she performed on the show's finale. The tune rose from its early slot of 52 on Billboard's Hot 100 to No. 1. Next month she starts a U.S. tour with nine former rivals, including runner-up Justin Guarini. By the time that's wrapped up and Clarkson has finished her first full-length album, contestants for Idol rip-off shows should be just about ready...
...MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Affordable no-star accommodation out of town is available for those with their own transportation. A funky cartoon billboard near Thom's Elephant Camp (about six kilometers south of Pai in the middle of the valley near Tha Pai Hot Springs) announces the well-designed and landscaped bungalow complex called Spa Exotic Home. Run by a decidedly non-bohemian former Bangkok businesswoman with an eye for detail and a faith in word-of-mouth promotion, the seven individual bungalows have Balinese-style bathrooms with private hot mineral water tubs. Spa's peaceful and intimate rooms...
DIED. TIMOTHY WHITE, 50, editor of the record-industry trade publication Billboard; of a heart attack; in New York City. After taking over Billboard in 1991, White presided over an expansion of its pages and urged social-consciousness upon the industry in his columns. He also wrote the acclaimed 1998 biography Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley...