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...those days, I had no idea how much it would change my life. I just knew I liked it - a lot. The first song was just perfect - " Blitzkrieg Bop" - opening with what became one of the patented Ramones chants: "Hey ho, let's go!" over a fast tom-tom pattern. Suddenly the guitar and bass came in, and the effect was like a plane taking off; you felt driven back into your seat. It was the heavy unison riffs we loved so much on Led Zeppelin records, but without the silly Tolkeinesque or savagely misogynistic lyrical maunderings...
...riots. Community leaders have demanded an explanation for the deadly force used against Thomas, and residents have long complained of racial profiling. In March, the American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of black civil rights groups filed a lawsuit accusing Cincinnati of a “30-year pattern of racial profiling,” alleging that blacks are routinely singled out for minor offenses more than whites and that excessive force is common. On Wednesday, the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. attorney’s office in Cincinnati joined the FBI in a civil rights investigation...
...pause at this list. One interesting effect of such a review is the exaggerated importance of detail and pattern. The taxes surveyed, contested or not, concern either property already acquired (land, assets, beards) or some kind of procedural fee (marriage, burial, customs duties and a flat fee for foreigners to participate in the local economy—however problematic, by our standards, this determination of foreignness may have been). The detail which stands out, making the list seem more like a Borgesian encyclopedia than a record of tax law, is that of souls...
...members constitute the brains and the brawn (so to speak) of television and film in the United States. If their contracts expire before a settlement is reached, the unions will go on strike—leaving movie theaters nationwide in the lurch and turning the television test pattern into the latest ingenue...
...pattern? It's as genuine as Grandma's quilt. After a 10-year bender of gaudy dreams and godless consumerism, Americans are starting to trade down. They want to reduce their attachments to status symbols, fast-track careers and great expectations of Having It All. Upscale is out; downscale is in. Yuppies are an ancient civilization. Flaunting money is considered gauche: if you've got it, please keep it to yourself - or give some away...