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...moments come when Morel decides to pick up a microphone and jam with his band. The resulting pop tunes make a strong case for sticking to paths that are time-tested and crowd-approved, and leaving the funny experiments to the big boys. Morel’s pristine studio polish, which helps redeem the otherwise lifeless house music, only saps his guitar songs of immediacy and relevance. Besides not being able to sing, his lyrics can be cringe-worthy: “So carry these words inside of you / Love is really sad.” Evenly divided between dreadful...
...handing down news on tablets; it is not ashamed to look like Access Hollywood. Its on-air talent is colloquial--"Slammed on the floor!" said a reporter describing Janet Reno's public fainting spell last week, as if she had been upended by The Rock--with less patrician polish than traditional newscasts. It's a far cry from William F. Buckley--a conservative haven that appeals to social-class resentment. O'Reilly, the highest-rated host in cable news, plays the class card explicitly, inveighing against limousine liberals in one breath and oil-company lobbyists in another...
...ALLOWED Dreadlocks, colored contacts and, on men, nail polish or visible body piercings (because it can be hard to tell a minor shrapnel wound apart from a badly conceived nipple ring). Nail polish is O.K . for women, so long as it's not blue, black, khaki or?things really are changing?camouflage...
Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2002 Stalin saw Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevski as the potential leader of a military coup. What's more, Tukhachevski publicly accused Stalin of losing the Polish campaign of 1920. Stripped of his office and appointed to command the obscure Volzhski military district in Kuibyshev, Tukhachevski was doomed ? but Stalin never acted openly. On May 13, 1937, he invited Tukhachevski to the Kremlin. The Party, said Stalin, still had confidence in the Marshal, and wished him success in his new command. On May 22, they arrested Tukhachevski in Kuibyshev and brought him to Moscow to be shot...
...actually tried to commit suicide at 21. I drank furniture polish. I had no purpose in life, and I thought it was all over. I checked myself into an observation ward [in a hospital] for a while because I knew I was suicidal. I wanted to get some help. And I had an epiphany. I saw people who had profound emotional problems. These people were manic-depressives and paranoid schizophrenics. I looked around and said to myself, I don't have any problems. I realized all I was doing was being absurdly self-absorbed and giving in to self-pity...