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According to a recent profile of Kaufman in the New Yorker by Julie Hecht, who hung out with him in those days, he spoke about killing himself on television, which would have been, for him, the perfect summarizing gesture. Probably he was kidding. But his self-destructive and endlessly confrontational relationship with networks, concert managers and audiences was the great theme of his career. He was always disconcertingly catching everyone between laughter and outrage. And the cookies-and-milk treat he sometimes offered later never quite healed that ambiguity. Man on the Moon doesn't either. It just gives...
...along the way, more money in the pockets of Amazon employees. Michael Krantz, our San Francisco bureau chief, hung around their offices in Seattle for a few days and noticed how the subject of stock options never came up. "They're all imbued with this giddy faith that their best days lie ahead of them," says Krantz. "The subtext, of course, which they are well trained never to mention to reporters, is that if they're right, a lot of them are going to be extremely rich...
Although it may not be possible on New Year's Eve, it's usually a good idea to go to bed at a decent hour. Even teetotalers tend to feel a bit hung over if they stay up all night. Don't be surprised, however, if you wake up a couple of hours after you fall asleep. Your brain counteracts alcohol's sedative effects by becoming more excited...
...sesquicentennial of Goethe's birth, 250 illuminated busts of the German poet were lined up in a meadow in downtown Weimar. Fans could buy stockings imprinted with his lyrics or a vibrator bearing his likeness. An exhibition of his drawings was hung at Buchenwald...
Five anarchists summed up the mood of many voters last week when they hung a banner over the side of Lenin's mausoleum on Red Square. AGAINST EVERYBODY, it read. For what it's worth, pundits are betting that the Communist Party and its allies, led by the leaden-tongued Gennadi Zyuganov, will once again emerge with the largest group in the new Duma, with around 20% to 25% of its 450 members. This would be fine as far as the Kremlin is concerned. It would infinitely prefer that Putin run against Zyuganov rather than Primakov next year. The extreme...