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...Local utility Con Edison, on behalf of its customers in New York City, declares an "Electrical Emergency." The Mayor's Office of Emergency Management urges city residents to reduce their electricity use. OEM asks that residents turn off non-essential appliances such as washers, dryers and lights and minimize the use of air conditioners, especially upon leaving home. New York and New Jersey state government offices shut down at 2 p.m. to help conserve energy. More than 7,000 customers in and around Flushing lose power due to Con Ed equipment failures...
...thing about Jerry Bruckheimer: he really knows how to blow stuff up. As one of Hollywood's biggest and most durable producers, he blasted through Alcatraz in The Rock, tossed an airliner full of psychos onto the Las Vegas strip in Con Air and destroyed a hurling asteroid in Armageddon. In the 1980s, along with his late partner, the fast-living Don Simpson, he changed the movie business forever with a highly comic, highly charged formula of music, muscles and mayhem. Through sales of movie tickets, videocassettes and sound tracks, he has generated an estimated $11 billion. And now, wouldn...
...humor plays with prejudices rather than on them. "Were they colored?" the police asked the elder Sanford about a gang of thieves in an early episode. "Yeah," he replied. "White." The old man, played by Redd Foxx, has none of Archie's anger. He is simply an engaging con artist who will resort to any ruse to keep his son from quitting the business and leaving home...
...popular mind Les Paul existed for a half-decade: the years 1950-54, when he and Ford enjoyed 16 top-ten hits, including 'How High the Moon' (#1 for nine weeks) and 'Vaya Con Dios' (#1 for 11). That would be enough, for anyone whose memory contained chips of Ford's silky stylings and Paul's amazing facility with a sound he invented and perfected. As he told Stephen K. Peeples in the 60-page booklet that comes with the 'Les Paul: The Legend and the Legacy' four-volume CD set (on the Gold Rush label): 'That big, fat, round...
...forgive me - I suspect that feelings, mere feelings, set a standard that is too low, or anyway that is evanescent and unreliable. "Closure" is nonsense, a con that is retailed by "grief counselors." Feelings are not enough. They wear off, as drugs wear off. Justice has something to do with feelings, I guess. But it needs sturdier reasons...