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...Majesty The Decemberists is a worthy follow-up on all counts. The band manages to gently expand its repertoire while retaining everything that made Castaways so endearing. Pre-Marxist revolutionary Colin Meloy is still penning dime-novel tales about dissolute seamen, WWI doughboys, a blindfolded “Jewess” and a rascally “chimbley sweep.” The songs verge on Gothic, but only in a literary sense—driven by nostalgia, they sound as if the Decemberists have never heard anything recorded after 1975, let alone a Cure record...
...couldn't air on network TV: their morality is too vague, their characters are too complex. Clean up Carnivale, and you'd have something not unlike ABC's spooky Miracles from last season. Carnivale's myth and Manichaeism may lure viewers inside the tent, but weirdness is merely a dime-store novelty. Capturing the ambiguities of life and of people is still the most elusive magic...
...visible, fills the screen at a couple of points in the film and looks suspiciously like something put there through the sort of paid product placement that marketers employ to get everything from soft drinks to cars featured in movies. But in this case Staples didn't pay a dime. Instead it is the latest lucky beneficiary of an artist's aesthetic choices...
...President complains privately that just as the media clamored for the war to be "over in a weekend," they now expect him to turn the economy around on a dime. He may be irked by such expectations, but he wants to look as if he's trying to meet them. Voters soured on the first President Bush less because the economy was stagnant in 1992 than because he didn't seem to care that people were hurting. His son won't make that mistake. "If he's working hard to get a growth package enacted, that's more important than...
Which isn't to say music executives are sitting around wringing their hands. It takes time for any corporation to recognize that its universe has changed, and major labels don't exactly turn on a dime. For Martin Bandier, chairman and CEO of EMI Music Publishing, the dime dropped three years ago when his 11-year-old son Max gave him a present: his 100 favorite Motown songs. "I said, 'But we have hundreds of copies!'" Bandier recalls. "He said, 'This is in a different place--on my hard drive.' It was scary." Bandier immediately convened a war council...