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CHUBBY CHECKER wants respect. You'd think then that the first place he might go is city hall and revert to birth name Ernest Evans. But no. The Chubster is marching on a different hall: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. As footloose popularizer of the Twist, Checker wants a statue of his likeness erected in the Hall of Fame's courtyard for services to dancing. (He also popularized the Fly, the Pony and the now legendary Hucklebuck.) "This is Nobel Prize territory," he insists. The quest came to him after an appearance...
...can’t help but feel the ebb of exploitation waiting in the wings. While studio executives truly are concerned and rightly sickened by the idea of releasing any sort of thoughtless frivolity in the immediate future (they are human, aren’t they?), things will slowly revert back to “normal...
...that. Four out of five New Yorkers are Democrats, but that was true when the Republican Giuliani won his two mayoral elections. Once every generation or so the town goes Republican--usually in moments of crisis, such as the Gotham-is-ungovernable hysteria that helped elect Giuliani--only to revert to Democratic control. So by that estimate, Bloomberg has a shot...
...some ghastly, bracing time reversal, will suck the gaudy Clinton era backward into a grainy trauma of black and white. Unthinkable reversions become possible - mass unemployment, who knows? We have already seen California's power grids shuddering. Will grass sprout through the silicon chips, and all that brilliant information revert to sand, and Gates to Ozymandias? Maybe not, but there's a chill...
...hearts, the slaughter of children and babies. "They are in a trance, possessed by something. Why did it manifest itself in such a form? They saw something evil and in our culture you must destroy evil, so they take down the swords and spears hanging on the walls and revert to the ways of our grandfathers...