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Over the next decade, the sheer number of chart-topping artists, musicians, and groups produced by Motown defied comprehension: Martha and the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. All became part of what would come to be known as the Motown Sound. It is rumored that Gordy modeled his hit factory after the Detroit car assembly line that he knew so well: Make a good product, then make something similar, and make it quick. Over here were...
...Israeli side, reservists - who make up more than 5% of the Israeli fighting force - will bear part of the brunt. In one Fire Mountain unit, there's a gardener, a lawyer, an ad exec, an electrical engineer and a redheaded Israeli-American actor from Beverley Hills named Gregory Ross. "I'm so not into thrill seeking," says Ross. "But I'm here to protect my people...
...Nina Foch (rhymes with posh, not gauche), 84, made an early splash as the put-upon heroine in the clever melodrama My Name Is Julia Ross, but her keen features and cutting voice soon typecast her as spoilsports and other frosty types. We hope that, wherever she is now, she's getting better parts. Anita Page, 98, starred in The Broadway Melody, the first talking picture to win an the best-picture Oscar. She was also the last surviving star to have attended the first Oscar ceremony in 1929. Evelyn Keyes, 91, played Scarlett O'Hara's sister Suellen...
...that the pact has been a disappointment on other fronts. The bloc has been seen by some as a symbol of insidious globalization, cordially invited into the U.S. only to eat away at the domestic job market. In 1992, before the treaty was ratified, independent U.S. Presidential candidate Ross Perot famously warned voters to prepare for the "giant sucking sound" of jobs moving across the border to Mexico, where NAFTA would enable companies to take advantage of cheap labor. Mexico's average hourly manufacturing wage is still only about 13 percent of that of the U.S., but even with that...
Mickey Spillane and Chandler, however, remain key to understanding Crumley, whose unflinching violence recalls the former and whose tough-guy poetry invokes the latter. A search for redemption in his work links Crumley to Ross Macdonald, but Crumley wrote characters who were more real, sad and believably flawed than any created by his predecessors...