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...against such former and future Oscar winners as Johnny Mercer, Henry Mancini, Marvin Hamlisch and the Sherman Brothers. The award typically went to doyens of the classic-pop establishment, all of whom were white. For nearly two decades, the movie-music fraternity had fought the onslaught of rock and soul music through the simple expedient of ignoring it. The closest Oscar had come to acknowledging rock 'n' roll was in its 1971 award to the Beatles for the sound track to their docu-concert film...
...named David Porter. They eventually composed some 200 songs and were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 - the same year as the Sherman Brothers, whose Mary Poppins score was the spoonful of sugar to Hayes and Porter's megadose of Viagra. (Hayes made it into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame...
Some restaurants require waiters to tip the kitchen staff. But they're not waitstaff. They should not be participating in the cut. You know this is illegal because if you ask the owner if he does it, he'll say no. That puts waiters between a rock and a hard place. They can say no, but the manager can say, "Fine. Don't come to work tomorrow." Waiters are often students, or between jobs, and they're vulnerable to that kind of pressure. Very often they'll cave in because they need to eat and pay the rent...
...pressure. The result: though inflation within the euro area stands at 4.1% - more than double the ECB's goal of 2% - the region's central bank announced earlier this month it, too, would keep rates on hold. "Both the ECB and Bank of England have been caught between a rock and a hard place," says Matthew Sharratt, an economist at Bank of America in London. "The best they can do is to leave rates where they are until they see some signs that inflation has peaked or started to come down...
...guests, many wearing fluorescent red stars, the SOHO corporate symbol, stood on the grounds of the Commune, sipping champagne and listening to rock bands and rappers alike - at one point the guests dancing, memorably, to the version of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech set to a hip-hop beat. You wouldn't hear that in the Forbidden City...