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...even the non-fab world had been forced to take notice of this all-conquering cultural force. The Beatles had become such a huge British export that they were given a royal award: the Member of the Order of the British Empire, or M.B.E. (They took this about as seriously as anyone might have expected, all four of them firing up a joint in a Buckingham Palace washroom before the ceremony, and Ringo commenting on his M.B.E., "I'll keep it to dust when...
...errors of your youth. Harrison went to court and persuaded a judge to stop the sale of a recording of the Beatles singing drunkenly in Hamburg, Germany, in 1962. What Harrison called one of the band's "crummiest" performances was caught on tape when the not-yet Fab Four went to the Star Club to play their last gig after signing with EMI. Unfortunately, the Liverpudlian lads had a little too much zu trinken beforehand. Lingasong Music, which wanted to release the tapes, claimed John Lennon had agreed to the recording. Harrison disputed this: "One drunk person recording another bunch...
...raked across the state generated as many as 10 twisters, probably the worst pack of tornadoes ever to hit Florida at one time. Last week's toll is still being calculated, but so far, 39 people are known killed, 250 injured and two missing. Some 1,700 apartments, pre-fab houses and single-family homes were damaged or destroyed. Total damage estimates exceed $65 million. Dozens of Florida counties have been declared disaster areas; President Clinton, touring some of the worst-hit areas on Wednesday, has promised millions in federal...
There is something heroic in this domestic image. Alone in the dark, facing his fears, the modern-day parent is a rugged individual of a new sort. We would be wrong to think of this sort of person as an unreflective suburbanite, locked into pre-fab group-think. While we may not ride out into the sunset alone anymore, there is a contemporary heroic individualism that deserves our respect...