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Audio purists may grouse that the CD quality makes these sounds ring clear, instead of down and dirty. That is a little like a car collector griping that some fine detailing on the chrome spoils the lines. Spruced up though they are, these songs sound nasty and urgent as ever. The quality is so direct and uncluttered that it can take you straight back to the days that drummer Sam Myers recalls in the album notes, when he, James and the band would pile into a nine-passenger station wagon with their instruments and head on down the road...
This is just what Tosches, author of a fine biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, sees as crucial in Martin's life: that he was the signal showman of an America that was "fulfilling its destiny as the chrome-crowned glory of post- literate, polyvinyl civilization." Dino was what we wanted and deserved. With the cool of a crooner and the leer of a rocker, he straddled two pop eras. He took the styles others created and filtered them, through the screen door of his nonchalance, for a Middle America avid...
...fissures in their surface -- an "Invasion of the Body Snatchers aesthetic," as someone remarked at the time. Its payoff would come 20 years later, with pieces like Big Load, 1988, and Stamp of the Past, 1989, ceramic chunks like blotched meteorites, with sharply cut surfaces of an eye-straining chrome yellow in which a perfectly square black hole opens on the mysterious emptiness inside...
...tiny gold-plated shopping cart may seem like a bad joke in these recessionary times. But to Jamie Reidy, 45, an out-of-work Los Angeles comic, it's a dream -- or Dreamkeeper, as he calls the foot-high cart. Gold-plated (retailing for $1,000) or chrome-plated ($85), the cart is selling like double-coupon groceries in pricey gift shops and even supermarkets in the U.S., Japan and Europe. "Call it the Pet Rock of the '90s," cracks Reidy, who conceived this "universal image" in 1989 as he wheeled a stray cart in a mall parking...
Reidy's minicart sold mostly by word of mouth until he found the right check-out line at last year's International Gift Fair in New York. Maybe you can't take it to a minimart, but with a plastic liner, the chrome-plated version can be used as a wine cooler, a salad bowl or even a purse. Reidy says some Rolls-Royce dealers give the 24-carat gold-plated model to upscale Santas, who use it to deliver a set of car keys. Sales so far: 15,000. If you can afford it, check...