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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sweethearts Together" plays just as trite as it sounds and doesn't merit much mention. "Suck on the Jugular," however, could be the joint project with Parliament-Funkadelic that never was. The song showcases underwater organ sounds and semi-soulful background vocals (Ivan Neville has a hand in both). These elements bear more than a passing resemblance to those employed by Primal Scream--with George Clinton of P-Funk fame--in "Funky Jam" on their latest album, "Give Out But Don't Give...
...said the paper should have realized that it had assigned the review to someone who was attacked (although not named) in the book. In her July 3 reply, Auerbach acknowledged that she had attended one of the academic summits that Sommers derides but added that the book made no mention of the paper she gave there and "I therefore do not consider my presence to be a conflict of interest in reviewing the book...
...diversity, sprawling across more than 1, 000 square miles, Los Angeles is not unlike the elephant of the fable that puzzled the blind men . How can one possdibly define a place that gave the world Mickey Mouse and Marilyn Monroe, the Watts riots and the Mansion murders, not to mention the kosher enchilada? Los Angeles is a metropolis of 85 cities with no "center of gravity", as Peter Theroux writes in one of the witty, observant little essays that make up Translating LA (Norton; 271 pages; $21). Its user- unfriendly downtown center resembles Gertrude Stein's famous description of Oakland...
...Tuesday, the man who would be head of CBS had no idea that he was also coming down to earth from his latest flight of ambition. Ahead of him lay the prospect of suppers at the White House, chats with Dan Rather and interviews with world leaders. Not to mention the highest ratings of any network, record profits of $109 million in the second quarter and a chance to play an even larger role in bringing two-way television to Americans. All that would begin to be his in just a few hours, when the boards of CBS and Diller...
...want to mention Judge Breyer's extraordinary family. His wife Joanna, a psychologist at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, counsels children with terminal cancer and their families. Steve and Joanna's older daughter Chloe recently graduated from Harvard and now edits a magazine called Who Cares?, which promotes public service by young adults. Obviously the apple did not fall far from the tree. Their youngest daughter Nell recently graduated from Yale. And their son Michael has completed his freshman year at Stanford." -- Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass...