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OVER AND OVER AGAIN, ROCK critics have made the point that the angst-drenched songs of Nirvana and Pearl Jam are generational anthems for the under-30 set. But how true is it, considering that more 25-year-olds can probably recite the lyrics to the theme songs from Green Acres or Gilligan's Island than they can to, say, Kurt Cobain's Rape Me? Upbeat TV tunes are the hymns of the young in part because of good memory, in part because of Nick at Night, and very occasionally because of a sound-track album. From Henry Mancini...
Meanwhile, the good people of alt.politics.clinton still appear to be divided on almost all issues concerning our 42nd president, but over at alt.music.pearl-jam there was a consensus growing that the correct lyrics to Yellow Ledbetter had been found. Things seemed calm at alt.philosophy.zen, one discussion of zazen culminating with advice from a user going by the name Sleater, "You need only listen to the whisper in your own heart. My brain is only a reflection of yours...
...hold, some of which ended in sudden and inexplicable disconnections. Only refusing to answer the touch-tone menu guaranteed a conversation with a live assistant. To HSTO's credit, however, those students who managed to reach assistants received prompt activations of lines and services. But because of the log-jam of complaints, many students are still waiting for lines...
...group of record-industry professionals founded the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to honor musical greats; the first inductees (including Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke and Chuck Berry) were selected in January 1986. But even as the selections were made and the institution's first all-star jam held, the hall had no actual residence. In May 1986 the Hall of Fame board, after considering such sites as New York City and Memphis, Tennessee, decided to locate in Cleveland. Ostensibly, the city was selected because it's the place where local deejay Alan Freed popularized the term rock 'n' roll...
Wilson and Whitacre were soon discussing the price of lysine in talks with representatives of ADM's two biggest rivals in the field, the Japanese companies Ajinomoto and Kyowa Hakko. The Japanese were in a jam because prices had plunged from about $1.30 per lb. before ADM entered the market to about 60 cents per lb. When the group gathered at a Nikko Hotel conference room in Mexico City, Wilson stated that the price drop had created an unacceptable situation: buyers of lysine were getting a $200 million break at the expense of ADM and the Japanese producers. "The competitor...