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...heart's an open door, and my secret love's no secret any more." Apparently, k.d. lang, who provides a new recording of the song over the final credits, agrees with its relevance. The image of two men slowly dancing together, from an early experimental film by Thomas Edison, seems strange and haunting at the beginning of "The Celluloid Closet" but even more so at the end, where it is used to great effect, bookending the progress shown in the film, in which such images began as innocuous and then became an object of prurient curiosity and hatred, finally...
...Wodehouse, whose Gershwin Plays Gershwin album won raves when it came out in 1994. For that CD, Wodehouse rerecorded Gershwin's piano-roll performances by playing them on a Yamaha Disklavier, a kind of computer-driven player piano. The Pearl set is based on actual historic recordings--78s, Edison 80s, radio-broadcast acetates. Wodehouse painstakingly tracked them down around the country and cleaned them up for modern ears. "It's a shame that they got lost in the shuffle," says Wodehouse. "But great pop music comes back, and that is what is going to happen here...
...becoming the Bell Labs of politics," he once declared. "The first thing you need at Bell Labs is a Thomas Edison, and the second thing you need is a real understanding of how you go from scientific theory to a marketable product." Divisive issues such as abortion were explicitly avoided; the focus was on strategy, not philosophy. Gingrich taught his acolytes "our rhythm and style," how to use his serrated language to cut their opponents; Democrats were to be described as traitors and with such adjectives as sick, corrupt and bizarre. Gingrich eventually became such a cult figure among young...
...shake-out has already led to bankruptcy filings by such regional discounters as Caldor, Bradlee's, Jamesway and Edison Bros. Stores, whose core clientele are overleveraged households earning $30,000 to $50,000 a year. "This group is under extreme pressure, and the retailers who cater to it are in a recession," says Mark Zandi, chief economist for Regional Financial Associates, a Pennsylvania consulting firm...
...some, or all, school functions--seemed like it might be a magic bullet for the nation's ailing, bureaucratically entrenched public schools. Now it appears that the champions of privatization may have seriously underestimated the challenges--political, organizational and financial--of such radical change. Christopher Whittle's highly touted Edison Project has only four schools in operation. Education Alternatives, Inc., based in Bloomington, Minnesota, has signed no new clients in more than a year. Its contract to manage an elementary school in Miami Beach, Florida, expired last June; its nine-school project in Baltimore, Maryland, remains controversial, and its high...