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Take "See You In Paradise. "Not only is that the sort of title a hippie mystic like Morrison would invent, but the opening piano chords mimic the Irish guru's "Bright Side Of The Road" with no mean precision. Similarly, "First Time," a rave up with some inspired drumming, sounds like it was written after a careful analysis of "Wavelength," and "Celtic Ballad" could be a cut on any one of Morrison's albums...
...usual, songwriting Guru Dave Faulkner focuses his trenchant lyrics, on faithless girlfriends and confused, desperate men, but with a venom unfelt on the band's two previous albums. The song titles alone--for example, "Out That Door," "What's My Scene," "I Was the One," "Hell for Leather," and "In the Middle of the Land"--spell out these feelings...
Wealthy, media savvy and hypersensitive to professional status, Tange is something like a Japanese Philip Johnson, but with Le Corbusier as his guru instead of Mies van der Rohe. As a teenager, Tange saw Corbusier's drawings for two huge public buildings, and he was smitten. "Right then and there," he says, "I decided to be an architect...
...firm appears to be Drexel Burnham, the investment house with close ties to Boesky. Wall Street is restlessly waiting for the results of an SEC probe and a reported grand jury investigation into Drexel's activities, among them the highly profitable operation run by Michael Milken, the junk-bond guru. Even though no charges have been filed against Drexel, rumors have proliferated among competing firms that Drexel could conceivably face fines running into the hundreds of millions of dollars if its staff is found to have committed widespread insider trading...
...connection with the Boesky case, at least six Drexel Burnham employees, including Siegel and Junk Bond Guru Michael Milken, have been subpoenaed by the SEC, an action that does not imply guilt of any kind. Even so, Milken has reportedly hired three of the country's top criminal lawyers, Edward Bennet Williams, Arthur Liman and Martin Flumenbaum, to represent him before the SEC and in a parallel federal grand jury investigation. In December, Drexel Burnham Chief Executive Frederick Joseph publicly admitted that for a time, when Milken lined up potential buyers for takeover junk bonds, the investment bank would supply...