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...juice that cost nearly $7 a quart at the going exchange rate, some four times as much as a similar bottle would sell for back home. A large box of Cheerios cost more than $12. But it was the meat counter, she says, that "really threw me for a loop." There she discovered roast beef for about $16 a quarter-pound. That made McBain wonder whether her husband, an advertising executive, should uproot their family and accept an offer from his company to transfer to Japan...
...lifestyles of the previous generation. This pattern is not unique to hiring; it is ubiquitious among family relationships, friendship groups and casual acquaintances. People find common ground with others reassuring. It is a natural tendency, but one which is exclusive and disenfranchising for those kept out of the loop...
Jesus' Blood made its impact by repeating, for nearly an hour, a phrase of a hymn tune sung by an old man on a London street and recorded by a TV crew filming a documentary on derelicts. Bryars devised a kaleidoscopic accompaniment for the man's a cappella tape loop, slowly shifting and swelling the instrumentation and finally bringing on Tom Waits near the end to sing a raw, urgent posthumous duet...
Club Dead opens with a cinematic sequence that is unmistakably MTV. A harddriving, Stone Temple Pilots-like sound loop accompanies digitized video whose grainy and flickering characteristics are quite apropos against the violent, brash animation--way to go for MTV to turn technological limitation into chic...
Last week a federal prosecutor in Minnesota suggested that it could not -- that, in the words of one little girl's father, chickens will come home to + roost, that violence must beget violence, that the world is a tragedy in a continuous loop. Minneapolis U.S. Attorney David Lillehaug charged on Thursday that Qubilah Shabazz, 34, had for seven months negotiated with a hit man for a murder and had in fact moved to Minnesota to make a down payment on the crime. Her alleged target: Louis Farrakhan, the bitter rival of her father Malcolm X, who was murdered...