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Garth Brooks has a fine voice, though it's a shade too polished to be called distinctively great. His songbook is thick with quality ballads and rockers. But other than Friends in Low Places, a 1990 song that brilliantly melded the mischief of country with the simplicity of pop, Brooks has never produced a track with crossover appeal. What he has done, quite purposefully, is sell an astonishing 101 million records--and sales figures, more than anything, are how he has come to be defined. To the guardians of traditional country, the figures are license to write off Brooks...
...haircut, not even in the fun-fest A Hard Day's Night, and in this he was perhaps the most honest Beatle, the one least convincing when wearing the mask. The standard line is that George Harrison was an enigma, but perhaps he was transparent: a terrific guitarist, a fine songwriter, a wonderer, a seeker and, overriding all, a celebrity who hated and feared celebrity...
...ventured out occasionally to record and play with the Traveling Wilburys, a supergroup that included Dylan, Tom Petty and others. But various legal battles took up even more of his time. In 1976 he had to pay $587,000 for "subconsciously plagiarizing" the old Chiffons hit He's So Fine in his melody for My Sweet Lord. In 1991, he brought a seven-figure defamation-of-character suit when the tabloid the Globe published a story calling him a "Big Nazi Fan." And in 1996 he won an $11.6 million judgment against his former business partner in HandMade films, Denis...
...include in the morning paper and call 1-800 numbers about, but since when is it okay to slip a little tidbit like that into a harmless parenthesis. The reading “Do make a wild New Year’s Eve resolution” would have been fine, something I could label vague and generally inoffensive advice. A wild resolution could be anything from “start trying to decide how I’ll put food on the table in a few short months” to “stop wasting $3.50 on newsstand copies...
...conversation alarmed me, as have many other “sex” conversations I’ve had at college. A month ago, two guys argued that it is fine to dump a girl if she refuses sex after a couple dates. Another guy complained he was sick of dating girls who “don’t put out.” During the conversation, I became frustrated that my friends suffered from the sexual blindness and ignorance that affects so many college students. As a result, and especially with the novelty of a parent-free...