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...Sept. 18, 1931, a Japanese army lieutenant meticulously wired 42 cubes of yellow blasting powder and buried the load in the earth 5 ft. from railroad tracks north of the Manchurian city of Mukden (now Shenyang). The explosives would throw a lot of dirt but cause little damage to the rail line. After all, the South Manchurian Railroad was Japanese-owned and linked the empire's economic outposts in predominantly Chinese Manchuria. All the army wanted was an "incident...
...Ariz., night spot, the customer held a broken bottle to her throat and forced her to pull into a deserted area. Robbing her of $70, the thug pushed the woman out of her cab and threw her to the ground. When her assailant ordered her to crawl in the dirt, Bolton responded by emptying her pocket semi-auto into him. He died later in a hospital...
Whyte is noticeably quiet about the crime, dirt, awful schools and general corrosiveness that drive people out of cities in the first place. One urban expert says Whyte romanticizes a city that no longer exists -- "the city E.B. White wrote about in 1946, where you could leave the Stork Club at 2 a.m. and take the subway home." Whyte concedes that he has no plan to solve the litany of urban problems, but he denies he is a dreamer. "I am an anti-Utopian," he says. "We've got a lot of problems in New York that are not going...
There is a good bit of manicured savagery in songs like New York Minute and If Dirt Were Dollars ("I was flyin' back from Lubbock/ I saw Jesus on the plane/ . . . or maybe it was Elvis/ You know, they kinda look the same"), and a memorably nasty cameo portrait of Ronald Reagan as a cowboy named Jingo in Little Tin God. That's vintage Henley, delivered with a snarl and a smile, but The Heart of the Matter, which ends the record, is the struggle for a different sense of place, another state of grace: "I've been tryin...
...that kind of dirt were dollars, Henley would be flush enough. These days he lives in Los Angeles and travels to his small spread outside Aspen, Colo. ("my ranchette"). He also devotes time to social issues like the Southern Poverty Law Center, as well as a variety of environmental groups. But what he can always take to the bank is his gift for songwriting, which keeps growing. Talking about the legacy of the Eagles, he says, "The Eagles were another link in the chain, a logical extension of what came before. But I don't think the '70s will ever...