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...much needed shot in the arm to his career, it was MICHAEL JACKSON himself who was getting medical help. The singer collapsed while rehearsing and was rushed to the hospital, where his doctors diagnosed a viral infection; diarrhea had led to severe dehydration, which in turn caused an irregular heartbeat and dangerously low blood pressure. Wife Lisa Marie, sister Janet and mother Katherine rushed to the star's bedside, but it wouldn't be the Jackson family without sniping from LaToya, who first intimated that her brother might be faking it but, on hearing the doctors' reports, reversed herself...
Reich says workers should pay close attention to their 401(k) statements and note if they are consistently late or come at irregular intervals. Other possible trouble signs, he observes, range from sharp drops in balances to frequent and unexplained changes in investment managers or consultants. "When employers know that employees are watching," Reich says, "they might refrain from certain temptations...
...work also manifests those qualities which make so much post-war music difficult for the untrained ear: irregular tempo, unresolved chords and absence of melody. These qualities were less in evidence in the sonata than in the String Quartet #1, a work which even the composer describes as "grim and terse." The quartet begins with a mysterious Gypsy-like phrase, which is quickly flattened into harshness; the four instruments repeatedly diverge and then return with a burst of two or three dissonant notes. While the quartet is affecting and succeeds in communicating a certain nervous emotion, it is far from...
...ensure irregular staff rotations, the technicians work according to an eight-week schedule so complex that "technicians can't even figure it out," says Jayne...
...messy crossroads of modern life, splashing around in paint to demonstrate chaos theory, attacking Twinkie's with power drills to re-examine such banalities as shrink-wrap, vacuuming the pathetic Christina out of Wyeth's "Christina's World." Frequent musical segments with deep primal bass lines and irregular-heartbeat drums overwhelm the audience in a purely sensory world, freeing them from the burden of too much thinking. Genteel Boston audiences have become devotees of the Blue Man Experience, tying on paper head-bands, singing along with electronic prompters and dancing in an in-house ticker tape parade. They seem...