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Heavy Metals The shade of the season materializes on streamlined watches and hard-core clutches with streetwise edge. Opposite page: Bulgari Assioma watch in stainless steel ($4,050, bulgari.com) This page, from top: Leiber Goddess minaudière in metallic crystal ($2,395, judithleiber.com or 212-223-2999); Leiber Princess minaudière in metallic crystal ($1,895, judithleiber.com
...What kind of Christmas album would rock 'n roll's first superstar make? Well, the opening track, a Leiber-Stoller R&B number called "Santa Claus Is Back in Town," sounded a declaration of war against the Christmas-music tradition. As Elvis growled and screamed it: "Hang up your pretty stockin's / Turn off de light / Santa Claus is comin' / Down the old chimney tonight." Sexually explicit enough for ya? The title track - which lyrically is just another song about being alone or lonely on a holiday that's meant to reunite loved ones - was sung...
...bring out the power and drama behind its freakishness. In the early '60s-before the blooming of the singer-songwriter, before performers were routinely called artists, before the unit of music was an album-groups relied on songwriters and producers to give them hit singles. The Drifters had Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller producing their hits, and a gang of young pros in the Brill Building (Goffin and King, Pomus and Shuman) writing them. The Seasons were lucky to align with producer Bob Crewe, who had written such hits as "Silhouettes" and "Tallahassee Lassie." They were even more fortunate that...
...Putting together a trunk show of hits from a composer or group is a matter of choosing from among three options: a pastiche of tunes (as in Smokey Joe's Cafe from the Mike Leiber-Jerry Stoller songbook, the Billy Joel Movin' Out or Swingin' On a Star from lyricist Jimmy McHugh); a new book that finds slots for the songs (as in the ABBA Mamma Mia!, the Elvis All Shook Up or the Gershwin's My One and Only and Crazy for You); or a bio-musical of the artist (the Buddy Holly tribute Buddy or Hank Williams...
Nanotechnology involves using atoms and molecules to create microscopic materials including wires and tubes. Such nanowires are useful in computers, and the carbon nanotube tips Leiber is working on have application in biomolecular imaging...