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After Presley's contract was sold to Colonel Tom Parker for $25,000, Perkins had a pop-and-country smash with Blue Suede Shoes, and Lewis followed a year later with the primal boogie Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On. On Dec. 4, 1956, Cash joined the rockers, now known as the Million Dollar Quartet, for an impromptu jam session. Astonishingly, Lewis--the all-time most reckless rock 'n' roller, whom Cash flew in to comfort when Lewis nearly died in the '80s--is the last man standing. "You know," he said in sad wonder last week, "I'm the only...
...lesson: taking a punch. More used to rhetorical jabs than any other kind, the men "screw up their faces or turn away," says boxing trainer Umar Taitt, whose two front teeth are gold set with diamonds. "In boxing, you can't flinch." Clearly, boxing appeals to some on a primal level. "I think, in a perverse way, there's a lot of suppressed macho tendencies coming out," says Kevin Mitchell, a sportswriter for the U.K.'s Observer weekly and author of War Baby: The Glamour of Violence. "Most of us go through life without ever throwing or landing a blow...
...loyalties that does not shock in Britain's ax-grinding media culture. Seeing Kinnock "systematically misrepresented and tormented by a very vicious, powerful right-wing press," in Oborne's words, proved a searing experience for Campbell as well as many other Labour supporters of this period. It's a primal source of the determination he has shown as Blair's spokesman to exert iron discipline not only on the press pack but on Labour politicians who might be inclined to deviate from the centrally determined line. He won high marks from the press as Blair led Labour's comeback...
What Beckmann was, was a painter of history but not one who made pictures filled with public personalities or recognizable events. Primal scenes of degradation, yearning and exile were his specialty, complex reckonings with anxiety and grief. In his lifetime Europe would tear itself apart twice in world wars. And once the Nazis got wind of him, they put 10 of his canvases in their infamous show of "degenerate art" in 1937. The day after it opened, he fled Germany with his wife Quappi, first for Amsterdam, then, after the war, for the U.S., where he died of a heart...
...only American Express cards and Coors beer will make it onscreen. (Network commercial rules still apply, so there are no hard-liquor placements.) Thanks to these sponsorships, the show costs NBC almost nothing. As for the customers, Silverman notes with satisfaction, "Not only are they willing to share these primal life moments with us, they're paying for the meal...