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...DIED. DON GIBSON, 75, second-grade dropout who went on to write classic country ballads about loneliness and heartache; in Nashville, Tennessee. Gibson was a pioneer of the Nashville Sound, a spare style without fiddles or pedal steel guitars, and wrote two of his most famous songs-Oh Lonesome Me and I Can't Stop Loving You, a Ray Charles hit in 1962-on the day his television and vacuum cleaner were repossessed. "When I wrote those songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom," he said...
Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Kim Deitch (Pantheon; 2002) Ted Mishkin, an early animator, has a problem. Is his creation, the mischievous, bi-pedal cat Waldo, actually real? Mishkin thinks so, and it drives him insane in this darkly delightful novel. Deitch, an underground comix pioneer, has a style that combines the quaintness of antique toys with the woes of modern life. Full Review
...ride in Antarctica. The ice bike has no plastic parts (which would freeze and shatter in the extreme conditions), and the superfat, low-pressure tires provide traction in situations that would make a mountain bike weep. After a successful trial earlier this year, Stoup says he is ready to pedal to the Pole. INVENTORS Doug Stoup and Dan Hanebrink AVAILABILITY Now, $3,500 TO LEARN MORE iceaxe.tv/icebike.shtml
...Generally speaking, yes. In the long run, free trade benefits all and restricted trade with high tariffs, etc. harms all. In the short run, however, moderation is suggested to reduce job displacement and market disorder. Driving a car requires navigation. You cannot blindly put the pedal to the metal and think everything will be OK. Mike Mathers North Carolina...
...hard to pinpoint exactly where this gleam comes from. Frontman Halstead’s vocals are as whisperingly fragile as on his recent solo album, Sleeping on Roads. The instrumentation is a sort of chamber country affair, with pedal steel and keyboards filling out the central piano and guitar. The key may be the inspired use of space—the music never builds to more than a jaunty bounce (as on “Billy Oddity”). A plangent line like “It’s hard to miss you,” sung repeatedly over...