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...about the money," was a mantra Beatty repeated during the talk...
Given the new onslaught of licensed goods heading their way, European retailers may have little choice but to change their view. Consumers, after all, like the stuff. As American-style retailing continues to take hold in Europe, shopkeepers are beginning to chant another U.S. mantra: the customer is always right--especially when wielding branded credit cards...
...pride is something that seems to identify this school, as the mantra of sacrifice for the greater good runs through the hallways...
...recordings. They mixed genres seamlessly, performing ambient dub, driving jungle and straight-ahead rock with equal aplomb. While pre-recorded sounds were used, they were kept to a minimum. The sound was very tight but very flexible: four-minute tracks became ten-minute jams, with Tricky repeating phrases with mantra-like intensity. This vastly improved his music: in his studio work, Tricky compresses ideas into his songs, but the live venue allowed his songs to stretch out, achieving blinding power through repetition. A nameless female singer performed the roles played on record by Martina Topley-Bird (Tricky's occasional girlfriend...
Thirteen years later, after I had devoted three weeks and countless hours of my senior year to watching postseason baseball both on TV and (thanks to the kindness of friends) at Fenway, the phone rang. It was my dad, repeating his old mantra, holding back his own frustration. I like to think I've learned a bit from my relatively short career as a Red Sox fan, that each loss is a little less painful than the one before, cushioned by the memories of errors more egregious and runners stranded even closer to home. Maybe I have, but Monday night...