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Well, I don’t notice the quiet ones, anyway. The tourists can hear our conversations, and unfortunately we can hear theirs too. Every few minutes, a family walks by and has the same conversation in the same manner. The husband shouts extremely loudly in an authoritative voice, “This is Julia Child’s kitchen! It’s not open yet! It will open on August 19!” His family stands just inches away from him as he unnecessarily reads the exhibition sign aloud word-for-word. The family then peers through...
...blowers, from the boards of directors to corporate insiders to the accounting firms to the lawyers working for these firms to the credit-rating agencies. All these people! Would a despotic dictatorship have been more efficient in silencing them and producing the perverse incentives for them all to keep quiet? The system is so efficient that there's total silence. I mean, the Soviet Union had enough dissidents to fill Gulags...
When not near a guitar, Springsteen tends to be quiet, serious and very still. With a Fender in his hands, he's a horse that can't wait to run. He loves playing music for anyone, anywhere, anytime. "Ultimately," he says, "it's not anything near a selfless experience. It's very self-fulfilling and revitalizing. I'm up there trying to fire myself up. When the metal hits the pedal--bang!--I got a destination that I am moving toward, and I'm not gonna be satisfied till I get there. For me." Of course, Springsteen's pleasure...
...will it change? "Ten years ago, this was a nice weekend retreat," says Joy Menzies, a British woman who has lived in Thailand for 10 years. "Quiet, peaceful, the place nobody outside Thailand really knew about." That's no longer true, and Menzies is part of the reason. She's general manager of the Chiva-Som, an opulent spa and health center that serves stars like Hugh Grant and Naomi Campbell. Clients pony up $500 or more per day for facials, aquatic therapy, papaya foot wraps and a full menu of East-meets-West massages...
...when Bezekova returned from her U.S. trip, all the relatives heard was her lambasting America and Warhol's lifestyle. "They build tall houses there, all the way to heaven ... God will punish them for it," she told Bycko in 1987. "Andy is strange. He is never quiet. He is always doing something, telephoning, carrying around a box out of which a human voice speaks. Satan's work...