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...YORK -- Capital Cities Communications Inc announced an agreement yesterday to acquire the much larger American Broadcasting Cos Inc (ABC) for more than $3.5 billion in a deal that includes the participation of Warren Buffett, one of the nation's richest...
SOMEWHERE OVER CHINA gives us a little romance, necessary to alleviate the burdens of a difficult era. In addition it highlights Buffett's artistic innovation, proving that his philosophy of relaxed attitudes toward life is not confined to a single time zone or climate like the oceanside settings of his previous albums. He expands his island-nurtured philosophy to new regions with Somewhere Over China, inspiring those who hope to make it in this world without becoming Type A stress cases...
...Heard I Was in Town" is Buffett's sentimental report on returning to Key West--once the singer's home--in the wake of his fame. He notes the way things change as life progresses: "Don't it seem funny/Word gets around/I heard I was in town...
...measure of a singer/songwriter's versatility is his treatment of non-original material. On Coconut Telegraph Buffett recorded a contemporary version of the 1930s hit "Stars Fell on Alabama." On this album, there are two covers, both of which recall bygone days of steamships sailing away for distant shores "Steamer," copyrighted by John Scott Sherrill last year, is a hauntingly sad reminiscence of lost love in a setting of crowds seeing a ship off at the dock. The imagery evokes the streamers, balloons, straw boaters and brave smiles known to us children of the 1960s only through black-and-white...
Some may complain that Buffett merely romanticizes an elapsed era which is of little relevance today. But the past three decades have proved to be a dry spell for romantics, who are a vanishing breed as it is. Barraged with the likes of Joseph McCarthy, Sirhan Sirhan, Gordon Liddy and Rosie Ruiz, we have been wanting for heroes. And it will be a long time before anyone romanticizes budget cuts--besides they're boring things to sing about...