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...breakup of the "old" Clash was deemed imminent following the success of the 1982 release Combat Rock, containing the radio/video hit "Rock the Casbah." The band's ensuing tour was riddled with disputes between Strummer and former band member Mick Jones. Aside from commercial problems, the two were faced with differing musical styles. Strummer favored the loud, fast guitar sound that was most evident on earlier Clash releases, while Jones wished to pursue the synth/dub style evident on Sandinista! and Combat Rock. Jones's new band, Big Audio Dynamite, has gone on to do what they intended. Strummer, however, seems...
...Bellevue, Wash., installed phones on five Seattle buses and four ferries as part of a three-month trial. For 50 cents a minute, chargeable to most major credit cards, passengers can make local calls. NewVector, a unit of U S West--one of seven holding companies created in the breakup of AT&T--hopes that travelers who enjoy talking on the go will next buy car phones...
...such an enthusiastic admirer that she not only took down everything Welles said, but argues his cause in all his old battles. Most of the star's botched or abandoned projects turn out to be someone else's fault or at worst a series of misunderstandings. Even the breakup of his marriage to Rita Hayworth is blamed on her insecurity. Throughout, Welles remains an unappreciated genius, large of heart and kind to small animals...
...though they were leg irons, but who knows exactly what is going on when she mocks gene splicing and pop art, or explains the virtues of the umbrella hat. The most poignant sequence is a reminiscence by a woman who is selling her home and its contents after the breakup of her marriage to what seemed to be a sensitive, feminist man. The piece is at once an unabashed defense of human-potential movements and a candid acceptance of their limits. Even the less ambitious, more conventional sketches contain lines to cherish. Perhaps the signature for the evening...
...four years before the court-ordered breakup of American Telephone | and Telegraph, the Federal Government required the company to separate its telephone-service division from the unit that made and sold equipment. That step was taken to prevent Ma Bell from charging telephone customers for the cost of developing new communications systems...