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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entire ad campaign called Straight Talk. The ads are filmed in black and white and resemble old Bergman movies, but the characters are not actors. They are living stockbrokers and other Prudential employees, including Mr. Simmons, who appears in several. The camera gets so close you can almost count his fillings...
This is how a conservative like Bill Bennett responds to a crime scene like that: "Body count!" barks the former Education Secretary. "Body count, yes, body count. Kids dying, kids abused, kids cut up, kids burned with cigarettes, kids whose brains are so poorly developed they can't function in school. This isn't child neglect, it's child endangerment." The Chicago story was a classic example of how a big-hearted, deep-pocketed government ends up subsidizing disaster. In all, the six mothers who lived in filth were collecting $5,496 a month in welfare payments. The system will...
...plea bargain that his lawyer Robert Bennett struck with the prosecution team headed by U.S. Attorney Eric Holder Jr. Rostenkowski would have got off with a fine and a six-month prison term in exchange for resigning from the House and pleading guilty to a single felony count. After two days of discussion with family and close associates, Rostenkowski decided to turn down the plea. Says former Illinois Representative Marty Russo, a close friend: "He just sat down one night and said, 'Wait a minute. I didn't do this...
...other people it came as a shock when Holder finally unveiled it last week. In addition to a charge that was already familiar -- that from 1978 to 1991 Rostenkowski took at least $50,000 in cash disguised as office purchases of stamps from the House post office -- the 17-count indictment outlined a collection of schemes that allegedly cost taxpayers more than $500,000. In the most damning part, it accused Rostenkowski of a kickback scam in which he put 14 people on his payroll for no-show jobs and such tasks as taking pictures at the weddings...
...cackling Love in Bloom and the magnificent Hawaiian War Chant, which climaxes with a wail of electric-guitar dissonance that predates Jimi Hendrix by 20 years. A quirkier collection -- Spiked!, on Catalyst -- has some prime oddities, notably a suave, six-part ribbing of The Nutcracker Suite (1945), which must count as one of the earliest "concept albums...