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...other thing--Aspen is a beautiful town. At night, the snow and icicles glisten and gleam. The houses precariously perched on nearby Red Mountain look like jewels. And, on a clear night, it's not just the streets of Aspen that are filled with stars--the sky more than holds...
...CADILLACS NEVER DIE," OBSERVES the great trumpet player and immortal bopcat at the close of Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac. "The finance company just fade 'em away." DIZZY GILLESPIE must never have had a brush with the collection agency: there is no fading, only gleam on Dizzy's Diamonds (Verve), a 3-CD collection spanning 1950 to 1964. Grouped into three broad grooves -- Big Band, small group and Afro-Cuban -- these 40 wondrous cuts show Dizzy setting the pace for some fast company, including Stan Getz, Charlie Parker and Bud Powell. The Big Band material blasts, the small-group sides jump...
...that they're on to the hottest thing since the chinchilla craze of the 1950s. Suzanne Shingler, part owner of Fowler Farms near Albany, Ga., has discovered the magic of ostrich farming, and the gaze she directs at the large ivory-colored egg in her hands has all the gleam of a gold-rush prospector's. "In a few months," chirps Shingler, "this precious baby will be worth $6,000." It will take $20,000 this year alone for her to care for 20 ostriches and their offspring, but the farm stands to rake in between...
Some public figures have a story magic, and some do not. Richard Nixon possesses an indefinable, discomfited dark gleam that somehow fascinates. And John Kennedy, despite everything, still has the bright glamour that works best of all. Works, that is, except when the subject is his assassination. That may be a matter still too sacred, too raw and unassimilated. The long American passivity about the death in Dallas may be a sort of hypnosis -- or a grief that hardened into a will not to know. Do not let daylight in upon magic...
...wonderful," Heather gushes as the salesman opens the convertible top on a $17,300 red Sunbird. She settles into the driver's seat and her eyes gleam with fantasies of the open road. As her mother and the salesman discuss water leaks in convertible tops, Heather says crisply, "Let's talk price." With trade-in and rebate, the Sunbird will...