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...lead singer, Dito, does sound like Bono--but sans the passion. His voice is even scratchy enough at times to mimic Bryan Adams', but, again, with a fraction of the fervor...

Author: By Marc D. Zelanko, | Title: Mere Imitation of the Stars | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

...Dito's singing style is clear and easily understood. Gutterboy seemingly invites the listener to sing along, for she will have no trouble discerning Dito's lyrics (although she may be annoyed by the too frequent appearance of words like "wanna," "gotta...

Author: By Marc D. Zelanko, | Title: Mere Imitation of the Stars | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

...True," the female vocalist, Barb Morrison, joins Dito. Instead of constant noise, more ethereal moments alternate with heaviness--offering the listener a much needed respite. One wonders, however, whether the band repeats the line "Is it something that I can change" 10 or so times at the song's end because 1) it says so much about existential angst that it merits repetition of 2) because they sought to fill time. (I chose...

Author: By Marc D. Zelanko, | Title: Mere Imitation of the Stars | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

...Book Publisher Peter Wolfe ordered soup in an Italian restaurant, and the waiter served it with his thumb in it. Wordlessly sending it back, Wolfe wished he had had enough Italian to call the waiter "a dribbling, senile fool!" or at least snarl at him: "Tolga il suo sudicio dito dalla minestra!" (Get your dirty thumb out of the soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Dribbling, Senile Fool! | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...boss's 57th birthday, the mighty House of Bemberg was raided. In Buenos Aires last week, over the protests of Otto Bemberg, Argentine federal police ransacked the vaults, carted off records, securities, correspondence, bars of gold and sacks of coin from the Crédito Industrial y Comercial, banking center of the Bemberg empire. Later they frisked other Bemberg strongholds in Buenos Aires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Fall of the Bembergs | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

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