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Hooray for Antipodean rock: Sure, it may have all been done before, but these days few can keep the rock idiom alive without sounding dated. And now here’s a charm-filled album by the former frontman of New Zealand band The Verlaines, Graeme Downes. A lecturer in a rock degree program (can you imagine?: Speaking tonight, we have Professor Axl Rose, lecturing on “Teased Hair and Split Ends in Detroit Rock of the mid-1980’s: Hair today, Gone tomorrow?”), this is rock done just right, as the minute...
...middle of a lunch date? Run outside, don a Bill Clinton mask, and gun down a half-dozen rivals. And what does he does to the hand of a rival? Stick a fork in it. "I'm way bad!" he says in English. Bending all his crooner charm to create a psycho Nijinsky, Lau here is great...
...Elian has been something of a lucky charm to the aging revolutionary. The exiles' frenzied attempts to keep Elian in Miami had played extremely well for Castro at home. And they had been a double disaster for exile activists, who ultimately lost a battle in which they succeeded only in alienating their cause from the American mainstream. The idea of sending Elian to New York may look like another propaganda bonanza to Havana - it would get up the noses of the exile community once again. Even if it didn't, Castro would hope to turn Cuba's best-known grade...
...nickname that was applied to him as much in honor as in derision). Large, fleshy and handsome, with unslakable ambition and infectious dynamism, he gained instant legend; between Einstein and Ray Charles, Welles was the fellow to whom the word "genius" was most easily applied. He had Mesmer?s charm; his voice could hypnotize, his gaze entrance. "When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that?s been watered" (Marlene Dietrich). "It?s like meeting God without dying" (Dorothy Parker). He landed in the American consciousness like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, his prodigious youth the stuff of theatrical...
...Republicans in Washington dearly hope Liddy Dole would have the charm to hold a seat they can't afford to lose. The GOP, of course, wants to take back the Senate, which it lost last May when Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords defected to the Democrats. But that may become an uphill battle: The numbers in the 2002 election seem to favor the Democrats putting some padding on their one-vote lead in the Senate. Twenty seats now held by Republicans are up for grabs, while the Democrats have only 14 seats at stake...