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...about four years. But someday it may happen that the heavens will open, light will stream from the sky and you will realize that Radiohead is the only band in the world worth listening to. Possibly even, it will be another band. And you will remember these words, and gnash your teeth as you realize that you will never be able to make the others see what you mean when you say that this is the greatest music in the world. But look carefully and you may catch that gleam in a stranger’s eye that marks them...
...matters. As MP3s and their ilk spell the end of music merchandising as we know it and the recording industry scrambles to find a new business model, that Akron teen is the least of their worries. The days of the CD are, after all, limited. But while record execs gnash their teeth over MP3s and Napster, the recordable CD has become a fact of life, and the new Philips CDR Mini HiFi system FW-R8is everything the execs were afraid it would...
EVERY TIME I SEE A FAVORITE WOODLAND area laid waste for yet another shopping mall, I gnash my teeth and think, Well, I have just lived too long and become a moss-backed old grump. But by jingo, it ain't true! Your Hubble space photos have put the wonderment back into my life! What's a little more concrete on an obscure planet circling a minor star compared to the crushing and splendiferous grandeur of all that's going on out there? WALTER MITCHELL JR. Dunwoody, Georgia...
Like their more numerous Hispanic and Asian counterparts, the undocumented "new Irish" switch jobs often, worry about the costs of sickness without Medicaid, and can do little but gnash their teeth when family crises occur in their homeland, because to leave the U.S. might mean never to return. "You often find them trying to put on New York accents while they serve you in a restaurant, just so they can meld into the background and not be found out," says Ray O'Hanlon, the national editor of the New York City-based Irish Echo newspaper. "This is rather...
...dream: The prospering American family gathers at its bright windows to peer outside. There, in the dusk, the streets are clogged with trade-crazed foreigners, Brazilians burdened down with shoes, Koreans with shirts, Japanese revving their Hondas, bearing a million videotape recorders on their heads. The foreigners wail and gnash their teeth as they hurl their inventories against the impenetrable American trade barriers. The American economy waves smugly to the rest of the world, then settles in to savor a bit of roast beef and full employment...