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...UNESCO among others, to help restore damaged engravings and stones and revamp the lighting system. In a move that could spell an end to the bedlam around the entrance gates, Tata also plans a tourist center that will offer interpreters, computerized ticketing, banking, a fleet of shuttle buses, a cafE and washrooms. An army of 20,000 men took 22 years to build the Taj Mahal, eventually finishing in 1653. The hands of many of the workers were later mutilated to prevent them from duplicating their work elsewhere. Saving India's great jewel may take a similarly monumental and ruthless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Taj Mahal Struggles to Keep its Luster | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...KINGMAKERS In the early ?50s, Atlantic occasionally bought the national rights to local R&B hits. One of these was Leiber and Stoller?s "Smokey Joe?s Cafe." A lurking melodrama in the "Hernando?s Hideaway" fashion (but written a year before that Broadway tune), it?s sung by L&S? L.A. discoveries the Robins. It features an almost maniacally comic attack by lead singer Carl Gardner. The vocal could have come right off the Chitlin Circuit of black vaudeville; imagine Mantan Moreland as a great belter. The production is full, clear and incorrigibly boppin?- Leiber and Stoller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahmet?s Atlantic: Baby, That Is Rock and Roll | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

...Smokey Joe?s Cafe" was the first of what Leiber called "radio playlets": menacing narratives in blues settings. "Riot in Cell Block #9" (later speeded up and jollied up for Elvis as "Jailhouse Rock"); "Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots" (about a moto-madman who "hit a screamin? diesel that was California-bound"); and "Framed" (in which the narrator is picked up by cops, fingered by stool pigeon, railroaded by prosecuting attorney). Lumpen tragicomedies, they had an implicit warning for their black listeners: that life was unfair to the underclass. As Leiber says in the "What?d I Say" book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahmet?s Atlantic: Baby, That Is Rock and Roll | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

...Bruce Willis? 1987 cover of "Young Blood." In 1986, with a hit movie as impetus, King?s original of "Stand by Me" returned to the charts, and went to #1. And in 1995 Leiber and Stoller finally made it to Broadway, with the long-running show "Smokey Joe?s Cafe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahmet?s Atlantic: Baby, That Is Rock and Roll | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

...unions have really started to lean toward Bush on anything that involves increased production and infrastructure.) Throw the two sides together in House-Senate conference, and expect something like, say 55 percent - less tax breaks for production and more for conservation, no ANWR and a few more mpg on CAFE standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Senate Unplug Bush's Energy Plan? | 8/2/2001 | See Source »

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