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...managed pretty well to drift apart and do other projects and come back together and do an album of new pop songs," Byrne observes. "As long as I have an outlet for the other things I want to do, usually I am really happy to work within the band form." But Byrne's breakthrough with True Stories may tip the balance. He is reading books like Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle and The Epic of Gilgamesh, brainstorming on a new movie. In one way or another, every rock singer wants to be Elvis Presley. But here, all of a sudden...
That the gurus of the fast-food industry might not have my best interests at heart should not have come as a shock, though. I spent a few weeks in the spring of 10th grade working at a Taco Bell outlet in town. My most lasting memory of my tenure there is of the time the manager, Jack, asked me to get some beef out of the freezer. When I returned to tell him that the meat was a most peculiar shade of green, he told me not to worry: "No one will notice once we cook it, Steve...
...optic cables swirled through the Happy Hacker's head. In reality, however, telecommunications isn't very complicated. It simply involves hooking your computer up to a telephone. Usually you buy a modem ($100 to $250) and plug one end into your computer and the other end into a telephone outlet...
...doing it? Most likely the golden god or goddess whose coloring you craved when you both were working on 25-page seminar papers last winter. Body Bronze attributes "at least 35 percent" of its business to Harvard tanners, while Tanorama's Square outlet claims it gets at least 80 percent of its business from the Ivory Tower. Geeking away in Lamont may leave you doughy, but these places provide a way to gain a savage tan as you shoot for a summa cum laude...
...lofty prices: $67.50 for basic oxford-cloth shirts, $130 for terry-cloth bathrobes and $338 for cashmere sweaters. One aim of that upscale pricing strategy is to maintain consumer prestige. Cagey shoppers can pick up Lauren's seconds and overstocks for 30% to 70% discounts at his factory-outlet stores, which are situated in such discreet locales as Appleton, Wis., and Tijuana...