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...singer and the veteran French composer and pianist rendezvous for a session of bittersweet jazz songs. Legrand selected the tunes (all his own, including Afterthoughts and The Summer Knows), and his piano persuasively conjures the smoky languor of a Left Bank nightclub. But the star of this show is Norman's brilliant voice, which cuts through the nocturnal mood like a shaft of light. Though you can't help wondering what the diva could do if she shrugged off the opera-house manners and let herself go a little more, there's no denying an instrument of such grandeur...
...Norman K. Mailer '43--author of one of the most definitive World War II novels, The Naked and the Dead--has called the quote "Once a philospher, twice a pervert" his favorite saying. However, neither of these terms is adequate to describe Mailer, a literary icon whose life never seems to be enough to meet his own expectations. Mary V. Dearborn attempts to find more adequate terms to capture the life of this monumental man in Mailer, her new sweeping biography that examines both Mailer and his times. Dearborn fills the volume with extensive detail in an attempt to capture...
...from a reality and an America that he himself helped to fashion. Instead, Mailer's life appears comic, with the only constant being his love of shock tactics and always appearing unpredictable. Although he has lived a life full of exciting people and events, I don't necessarily envy Norman Mailer. It seems like he could never enjoy any of it, like it was just one escapade after another, and that he never really found whatever he was looking...
...once a tiny independent record label out of Brighton (the Brighton on the other side of the pond, not the one on the other side of the Charles) that released dance music that was too risky for big-brother label Loaded to put its name on. Then Skint signed Norman Cook, a.k.a. Fatboy Slim, and the rest is history. Nowadays Skint is the home of major big beat artists like the Low Fidelity All Stars, Hardknox and Cut La Roc, while Loaded is still mostly unheard of outside the English club circuit...
...Internet has its version of road rage: impulsive anger expressed from inside a capsule of anonymity, an aggressive connection made from the safety of disconnection. In recent days, a Stanford University study found that the Internet is dangerously atomizing American society. "The more hours people use the Internet," said Norman Nie, a principal investigator for the study, "the less time they spend with real human beings...