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...world that is both flat and round, where 33 1/3 r.p.m. exerts a fearful centrifugal force. The U.S., particularly that extensive tribe of its citizenry under 30, is electronically in thrall to the thrumming, incessant sound of music, a phenomenon that has handed the record business a supremely marketable mania. Every week, hundreds of records are poured into radio stations by promoters trying to crack the crucial list of Top 40 hits that get saturation air play. Every year, 5,000 new albums pile up on endless racks in drugstores and supermarkets, there to await the ready purses...
After five years of Bob Dole commercials and veritable Viagra-mania, it's hard to believe that the pill that made "erectile dysfunction" a household phrase got its start as a potential treatment for chest pain. Today Viagra is the leading drug for impotence, with worldwide sales of $1.7 billion. Its manufacturer, Pfizer, boasts that nine of the little blue pills are popped every second...
...Reed Advisors Dividend Income Fund, either recently opened or are set to open. These so-called equity income funds, which pay returns to investors through both dividends and (it is hoped) share-price appreciation, have been around for years, although the investment style was eclipsed during the late 1990s mania for growth funds. Old Guard favorites: American Funds Washington Mutual Investors Fund, T. Rowe Price Equity Income and Dodge & Cox Stock Fund. Morningstar analyst Dan Culloton recommends that investors favor funds that have reasonable fees, track records and proven, experienced managers. --By Barbara Kiviat
...Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s latest film is based on ten conversations of a female driver (Mania Akbari) in Tehran with her passengers. These include her young and frustrated son Amin, a prostitute, a jilted bridge, a woman on her way to prayers and others. Having just ended a messy divorce and enduring criticism from her son, she acts as advice columnist for her problem-riddled passengers—whose drastically different lives are just glimpsed through the camera in the taxicab. Ten screens Wednesday, August...
...roll. They strip their sound down to the essentials: wailing guitar licks, raucous vocals and crashing drums redolent of rock’s heyday in the 70s. Explicit lyrics might stave off mass appeal for Silvertide, but the rambunctious quintet out of northeastern Philadelphia strike that chord of mania and excess with rock fanatics. Tuesday, August 19 at 9:50 p.m. $6. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline...