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...They haven't built that Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, yet, but when they do, they'd better save a room for Vedder. He's got all the rock- idol moves down. Does he have a painful, shadowy past? Check. Does he have an air of danger and sensuality reminiscent of Jim Morrison? You bet. Does he refuse to adopt the trappings of a rock star, thus demonstrating that he's such a genuine article he doesn't need stardom? Absolutely. Is he happy to be on the cover of TIME...
...distinctly second-rate. What, one wonders, was all the fuss about? Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 3 (''Eroica'') and 8. Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon). Beethoven: Symphony No. 9. Soprano Carol Vaness, Mezzo Janice Taylor, Tenor Siegfried Jerusalem, Bass Robert Lloyd; Christoph von Dohnanyi conducting the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus (Telarc). Every decade Karajan tackles the Beethoven symphonies, and these new recordings of the heroic Third and frisky Eighth complete his latest cycle. Like his previous version, issued in the mid-1970s, these interpretations are forceful and decisive, fast without being headlong, firm without being inflexible...
...Trouble began last February, when Marlene Armstrong, 44, her two daughters and two grandchildren became the first black family to rent on an all-white west side Cleveland street. There were taunts (''Nigger! Get off the porch!''), broken windows, fireworks assaults, ugly spray-painted graffiti (KKK) on the side of the house. Someone installed a ceramic black jockey on the lawn. One night last week a gang of young whites began launching bottle rockets toward the Armstrong house, but suddenly the fun went out of it. A 23-year-old friend of the Armstrongs' fired a shotgun at the whites...
Florida was once a swampy rural backwater, the poorest and emptiest state in the South. But in the 20th century, air-conditioning, bug spray and the miracle of water control helped transform it into a migration destination for the restless masses of Brooklyn and Cleveland, Havana and Port-au-Prince. Florida developed its own ventricle at the heart of the American Dream - not only as an affordable playground and comfortable retirement home with no income tax but also as a state of escape and opportunity, a Magic Kingdom for tourists, a Fountain of Youth for seniors, a Cape Canaveral...
...Four-dollar-a-gallon of gasoline only reflects $100 oil because the refiners' margins are squeezed," he said. "At $300, you have $12 a gallon of gasoline and riots in Newark, Los Angeles, Harlem, Oakland, Cleveland, Detroit, Dallas...