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...Paul Rein's musical apprenticeship began in the early '80s. A Swedish pop phenom, Rein drove teenage girls into adoring delirium and even up trees. After three albums, his star faded - "I had nothing left to give" - but he learned how to relate to audiences and "how to get the right twist" in songs. He moved into the studio, writing radio ad jingles. He learned not only how to program and arrange, but also what works on air. "If the hook's not there in seconds, you're dead," he advises...
...started talking. I asked him what he does at his job and he asked me about my school and what I do in my spare time. We just chatted. He had a white sedan and he drove us to some boring Italian place, I don't remember where. I had spaghetti, it wasn't expensive or anything. Then we went to a love hotel to have sex. He chose the hotel, it was in Minamiinta, Yamashina, off a toll road. It was just a normal place and he picked the room...
...took a bath first, alone. While I was in the tub, he took off his clothes. Then we did it. I used a condom so I wouldn't get pregnant. Afterward we agreed that it had gotten late, so he said, "I'll give you a lift." So he drove me to the station and that's when he paid me. I got 50,000 yen - 50,000 or 60,000, I can't remember...
...individual's life. Leary's statement, "LSD is more important than Harvard," accurately sums up his decision to drop out of academia and spend his life as a LSD groupie. And while Courtwright provides glimpses throughout Forces of Habit of the varying degrees of addictions that ultimately drove the drug trade and globalization, he also explains cultural stigmas that secured the failure of so many potential drug markets. For example, because the Chinese "equate hallucination with mental illness," Leary's LSD phenomenon was doomed to fail in their country. Here Courtwright offers a nice insight to cultural groups around...
Following Gunderson's goals, Brown was able to tie the score at four, but early in the third quarter, Peterson "just drove in and, out of nowhere, got up and scored," Magnuson said...