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While the U.S. has been debating how to bail out GM and Chrysler during the worst auto industry slump in decades, China has been scrambling to come up with its own rescue plan for its ailing carmakers. But unlike Washington, which is providing billions of dollars to prop up the balance sheets of the Detroit giants, China is taking a different route: it's trying to get consumers to buy more cars through a sales tax break and targeted subsidies for rural buyers...
...successfully sampled artists ranging from Ray Charles to Daft Punk in the past, it seems he’s found his limits; the sample only works well when your song is faster, better, stronger than those you copy. The digital splendor of the video is an ineffective attempt to prop up a song lacking both strong lyrics and a memorable beat. Kanye is the self-proclaimed voice of our generation, but he’ll find it hard to support that claim if he doesn’t leave the over-digitized, robotic monotone to people with no actual talent?...
...ardor of Beatles intensity. But it was on the infant medium of TV that Martin and Lewis were awesome. Their appearances on NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour made the viewer a co-conspirator in their anarchy; they broke the "fourth wall" as blithely as if it were a cardboard prop, and incorporated their famous arguments into gag lyrics for their duets. Their jokes became instant catchphrases, like the running gag where Jerry would hand Dean an ice cream cone and then plead, almost bray, "But doooooon' lick...
...kept saying, 'Sam, should she really be wearing the glasses? Shouldn't I just prop them on the top of my head?' And he said, 'Absolutely not!' So I thought, Well, I trust him completely, and this is a whole new challenge - someone has taken my eyes away. But the silences are where I have learned the most about the job that I do. They're where I learn to think...
...What other odds will you offer for this year's Oscars? We always offer what are called "proposition," or "prop," bets. This year, I took the total number of nominations for each movie and set a number for how many total Oscars the movie will win. Bettors choose to go over or under that number. So let's take Benjamin Button. The movie received 13 nominations. I hung the number at 2.5 and think the under is the favorite, meaning I don't think that movie will win any more than two Oscars overall. Another fun prop...