Word: hoovers
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Daugherty's "Sing Sing: J. Edgar Hoover" and Johnson's "How it Happens" began and ended the program. Both represent modern extensions of a procedure poineered by Steve Reich in the '60s in pieces such as "It's Gonna Rain" and "Come Out" and continued in his "Different Trains," recorded by the quartet in 1989. In these pieces taped speech is subjected to repeated looping (or "phasing," to use Reich's term) and then musically claborated. Daugherty, in the anti-establishment political tradition of Reich's earlier work, samples excerpts from Hoover's speeches and parodies them through his musical...
...VACUUM CLEANER OR WASHING MACHINE from Maytag's British subsidiary, Hoover, and get two air tickets to the U.S. or continental Europe, free! Sound like a good deal? You bet! Such a good deal, in fact, that Hoover sold tens of thousands of appliances -- far more than the company anticipated. Great! Right...
...from a bottom-line perspective. The travel agents contracted by Hoover to supply the service were overwhelmed by the demand. They placed unreasonable conditions on the freebie flights -- expensive extras, inconvenient airports, undesirable departure dates -- that seemed designed to discourage customers from claiming their free tickets. But the uproar from disgruntled Hoover users was so great that Maytag's managers back in the U.S. stepped in and fired three top Hoover executives. Maytag also set up a $30 million fund to pay for the promised flights, which, the company says, would be granted to all those who qualified...
...prosperity is undermined by global recession. Turmoil in the money markets has reinforced doubts about the E.C.'s ability to achieve a single currency and greater political union. In a climate of growing unemployment, a spate of factory closings is leading to bitter rivalry: France is seeking to stop Hoover Europe from moving 600 manufacturing jobs from Dijon to Glasgow. Glasgow is protesting Nestle's subsidiary Rowntree's plans to shut a chocolate factory, transferring operations outside Scotland. "European unity might be good for business," says customs clerk Retegui, reflecting widespread popular unease. "But what does...
...Hoover's presidential snooping included efforts to pin an illicit liaison on Eleanor Roosevelt and culminated, most famously, with eavesdropping on J.F.K. frolicking with Mafia moll Judith Campbell and Marilyn Monroe...