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With all the high-flown speechifying coming out of Congress last week, you would have thought the July 4th re-enactments had started early. "We struck a blow for freedom today," said G.O.P. Congressman Lindsey Graham. On the Senate floor, John McCain gave a similar fife-and-drum salute: "It is indeed a great day for democracy." The defeated foe: a proliferating breed of shadowy tax-exempt special-interest groups that must now disclose their political spending and donors. The patriot among patriots? McCain, who led the charge for the first successful effort to change campaign-finance laws in more...
...producers seem unable to resist, LeGassick has instead imbued Summer with an organic, retro feel. Although it may lack some of the lushness of lang's earlier work, it creates a dramatic counterpoint to her shimmering voice. He opens the bossa nova-tinged Summerfling, for example, with a spare drum beat and a chugging organ line, giving lang's voice plenty of room to bob and weave. (Note to LeGassick: next time lose the violins; we felt a sugar overdose coming...
DIED. ELLERY CHUN, 91, native Hawaiian who created the brightly colored aloha shirt in 1931; in Honolulu. The short-sleeved silk shirts, originally decorated with palm trees, pineapples and hula girls, were designed to drum up business during the Depression...
...Tigre last year. Their February word-of-mouth-only debut in Brooklyn packed a huge loft with so many insiders that a crowd stood listening in the snow outside. "We pretty much rotate instruments," says Benning, who assembles many of Le Tigre's beats on samplers and '80s-vintage drum machines. After its tour, the band plans to record a follow-up to last year's album. "I also want to do my own deejay projects," Benning adds. A feature film? "It's always been in the back of my mind...
Catherine Deneuve was charged with drum-rolling the suspense on closing night of the 53rd Cannes Film Festival...