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Rumors, confusion and anxiety gripped Moscow so intensely last week that his Kremlin handlers just had to produce a live Boris Yeltsin. The President of Russia had not been seen publicly since his alarmingly inarticulate inaugural oath of office on Aug. 9, while all manner of confounding events were convulsing the country. See, presidential aides needed to demonstrate, he's still the boss. But Yeltsin's surprise photo op last Thursday evening provided precious little reassurance. He didn't look as frail and puffy or sound as slurred as he had in the inauguration, yet his appearance lasted only...
...interest in its bottlers. Earlier this summer Coke arranged to buy out its British partner, Cadbury Schweppes; the two were the beverage version of Charles and Di. Coke's new partner is Coca-Cola Enterprises, the world's biggest bottler--44% owned by Coke. In this same manner Coke has reclaimed operations in the Benelux countries and France and set up "anchor bottlers" such as Coca-Cola Amatil in Vienna, which handles Central Europe. Pepsi General Bottlers of Chicago supply Poland as well as Pennsylvania...
...meaning of R.E.M.'s lyrics is usually enigmatic, and the songs are often constructed in an offbeat manner. On the new album, for example, Leave begins with an acoustic guitar dancing slowly with an accordion-like sound, before a blaring synthesizer, sounding almost like a police siren, kicks in. New Test Leper finds the band in a gentler mood. It's a soothing, meditative song that's tunefully and tastefully sweetened by a mandolin. A big rock number, Undertow, is an expansive and expressive crowd pleaser that the band played on its last concert tour...
...Sonic variety can be a good thing--the Smashing Pumpkins' brilliant double album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, also veered all over the map--but too few of the songs on the Pearl Jam CD explore the musical possibilities they suggest in any kind of definitive or provocative manner. No Code is the sound of a band looking for a new direction, but too comfortable and cautious to follow through on its vision...
...political persona, Jack Kemp, a self-described "bleeding-heart conservative," superimposed the ideas of another political model on the style of John F. Kennedy. Kemp melded Ronald Reagan's sunny supply-side philosophy and belief in the power of free markets with Kennedy's youthful vigor and populist-patrician manner to create a new kind of Republican. Now Bob Dole is hoping that Kemp's blend of Kennedy charisma and cheerful Reaganomics can persuade voters to give the Republican ticket another look...