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...videos for our music everywhere. We call them commercials. The Smiths' melancholy anthem How Soon Is Now? sells Nissan sedans; the Buzz-cocks' acid What Do I Get? shills Toyotas; Devo's arch Beautiful World pitches for Target. Mercedes even uses the Violent Femmes' ultra-obscure It's Gonna Rain in a spot for a convertible, though more people may have bought DeLoreans than listened to this song in its first life...
...train station. As I slept, or attempted to, on hard plastic seats, Susannah stayed awake and listened to the music: “From a Distance,” “Sarah,” “Only You,” “Purple Rain,” “Natural Woman,” “Toy Soldiers.” The list was long and horrible...
...stood in line to see the Jacqueline Kennedy show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City testify to the enduring power of Kennedy nostalgia, and the flock of Kennedy books coming this fall (and they come every fall, as surely as touch football and Cape Cod rain) demonstrate the family's enduring power in the marketplace (hot title: The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, by Caroline Kennedy). But that exhibit and those books summon the magic of departed Kennedys--J.F.K. and Jackie, R.F.K., J.F.K. Jr. The story of the new generation isn't about magic...
...think it would be an enjoyable trip. Reclining seats, AC cranked up against the tropical climate and southeast Mexico's lush countryside to gaze at. These folks are going home. Trouble is, they don't want to. When the bus crosses the border and pulls up on the narrow, rain-soaked street in front of the immigration office in El Carmen Frontera, Guatemala, its passengers are in a foul mood. Home is El Salvador or Honduras or Nicaragua or Guatemala itself--all disaster plagued, crime-ridden, poorer by the minute and, as far as those on the bus are concerned...
...wave, attributed to high levels of unemployment and the easy availability of small arms, has spread out of Nigeria's commercial capital to other cities. INDIA The Worst Monsoon for 50 Years The eastern state of Orissa was counting the cost of floods following two weeks of heavy monsoon rains. Nearly 100 people died and more than 1 million were left homeless in the worst monsoon floods to hit the state for 50 years. At least 160 people died in flash floods and mudslides in northern Pakistan, caused by record rains - 60 cm fell in Islamabad in one day. Iran...