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Williams estimates that there were 18 students packed into the room, and there were not enough chairs for all of them. Some were forced to stand or lean on window sills for the entire hour...
...goes -- on through fortune-hunting playboys and good-hearted whores, down to the last oppressed peon. Everything they do and say has been done and said before. But they simply refuse to admit it. The result is not epic cinema as David Lean defined it but as Bette Davis used to play it at Warner Bros. -- where history was a branch of melodrama and the subtler emotions were Xed out on the second-draft screenplay...
Things are good. The U.S. is lean and mean and at peace. Free trade is a priority, as are deficit reduction and education. Technology races ahead. We have a smart guy running the Federal Reserve (Greenspan) and another smart guy (Robert Rubin) advising the President -- who's damn smart himself. All of this bodes well. But the stock market in the short term doesn't care about any of that. It cares mainly about interest rates. You can argue that with the economy finally in gear, commodity prices and labor costs will begin to edge up. (Could the Teamsters strike...
SINCE HIS ARRIVAL ON THE POST-punk scene 17 years ago, Elvis Costello has shown himself to be one of the most prolific and protean songwriters of his generation. Known for lean, melodious three-minute songs with scathing lyrics about sexual guilt and revenge, he reigned for more than a decade as the acerbic headliner of progressive pop. Then came the '90s. Once a skinny faux nerd, Costello put on weight and grew a beard. His last pop album, 1991's sentimental Mighty like a Rose, was a disappointment. After last year's The Juliet Letters, a sedate song cycle...
Home:The mean streets and Adams Hose (although as recently as last week, the Lean Green Bikin' Machine was seen sleeping at the Salvation Army down in Central Square...