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...Four bold notes, ascending by thirds, and then a break; the pattern repeated four times in the first verse, and Van Eaton's drums emphasizing the musical statement, as JLL itemizes a lover's complaint, "You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain..." Mid-rant, he muses that passion has its perverse perks ("You broke my will, but what a thrill"), before surrendering to ecstatic inanity: "Goodness gracious! Great balls of fire!" The second verse, which explains the singer's agitation as an agreeable form of sexual psychosis, punctuates the news with three right-hand arpeggios, while the bass...
...that they could not be seen backing Washington in the face of the anti-American anger among their own people fueled by Israeli-Palestinian violence. The political climate in Arab capitals has cooled somewhat over the summer, even though Washington has continued beating loudly on the anti-Saddam war drum. But a new upsurge of Israeli-Palestinian violence could once again prove to be an obstacle to the Bush administration's regional ambitions. Saddam Hussein - who has recently embarked on a diplomatic offensive to shore up Arab support for Baghdad - is unlikely to have been displeased by Tuesday's events...
Davis isn't a monk, but his music requires monastic focus. To make his trippy new art-rock album, The Private Press (MCA), he spent 15 months alone in his California basement trying to match the unmatchable edges on thousands of vocal, drum and instrumental samples, and then turn them into something beautiful. "Whenever I hit a wall," says Davis, "part of me always wishes I knew somebody who played bass, so that I could just call them up and have them come in and bail me out with a new riff to bridge things together. But that...
...Music" - which has proved so durable that what originally was kitsch endures as camp, in the sing-along movie version that so enthralled Londoners a couple of years ago. On stage, the R&Ham shows are still playing ("Oklahoma!" is on Broadway now) and will keep playing ("Flower Drum Song" opens in October...
...profiiiiits!" Profits - on 10 shares? At best these cretins would be earning a tip, but their avarice is understandable: they are just dreaming as they were taught to. • And finally, that 4 billion of the 6 billion people on this planet, whose only daily goal is to drum up enough to eat, don't give a crap about Jean-Marie Messier - and that they're wrong in that. It's no doubt owing to our selfish obsessions that they're in the mess they are. Can Messier rise again? Possibly. To understand why, let's take a little quiz...