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Harvard students' bland tastes aside, Dirty is one the best things to happen to music this year. The disc features fifteen songs of raw energy, biting political commentary and visceral passion captured superbly by Butch Vig, the producer of Nirvana's last album. It ranks with Daydream Nation as one of Sonic Youth's best releases...
...Vincent will be represented by Brendan Sullivan, Oliver North's attorney in the Iran-contra hearings -- the owners will keep pressing for Vincent's resignation, because they want a stronger advocate with a weaker mandate. Probably there is no white knight for the owners, but it's sweet to daydream about the perfect candidate. A man of stature and compromise. A man whose son is an owner of the Texas Rangers. If George Bush becomes available early next year, he could throw out the ball on opening...
...Bush campaign badly needs fixing. What kind of team do Bushies daydream about...
Picking individual stocks in faraway places is not for the fainthearted, but with exotic stocks packaged in funds, an investor undeterred by transaction costs can even daydream of multiplying his gains by surfing around the world, taking a short, profitable ride on each cresting wave. All he needs is a globe, a pin and some strong hunches. In the '90s even distant neighbors have no trouble keeping up with the Dow Joneses...
...daydream the novel was always approaching the finish line. In real life Brodkey tiptoed around his writer's block, became the father of a daughter, then went through a divorce from the woman he had met as a Harvard undergraduate. After a long bachelorhood he was introduced to novelist Ellen Schwamm. Two weeks later, she left her husband of 23 years and moved into Brodkey's cluttered Manhattan apartment. They were married in 1980. He supported himself by teaching part time at Cornell, developing scripts at NBC and artfully freeloading. He advertised himself as "an incredibly good dinner guest...