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...without an asterisk at the end. The Kroks know that they are charming, but they are, for the most part, just looking for applause and the invitation to sing one more, not to use their charm to ooze their way up a corporate ladder. It is charm for the sake of charm, not for use as a weapon. This is what endears them, at least to their Ryder Cup audience...
Which is after all what drives music. "He's still the best talent finder in the business," adds Nathanson. "He's one of the last of the old-fashioned music men, and he's adapted to the times." And for music's sake, kept the bean counters...
...Brulte and Baugh. And even jealous Democrats suggest--anonymously--that Davis sees no further than to the bottom line of the latest poll that's dropped under his nose. Once he tests the wind, "he's great at splitting the difference and being in the middle for middle's sake rather than because that's where he wants to be," says one Democrat...
...Thousand Years (1990), with its vitrine full of maggots and flies that swarm over the bloody head of a cow. It's a little pocket of hell: nauseating, unerringly brutal, but its shock looks death terribly in the face. Not silly, not shallow, not shock for shock's sake. Nor is Marc Quinn's Self (1991), in which a cast replica of the artist's head is filled with eight pints of his own blood, kept cool in a refrigerated case. We'd all like to freeze our mortality, stop it cold, and you can take Quinn's literal rendering...
...sake, hang up - it?s gonna blow! Cell phones are annoying, they cause car accidents, and they may give you brain cancer. Now, it seems, they may be combustible. Almost sheepishly claiming that "prudence is probably the best policy," BP Amoco spokeswoman Linda McCray announced Friday that cell phone use near fuel pumps at its U.S. gas stations will now be verboten. "This is not a ban - this is a precautionary warning," she explained, pointing to the very slim possibility that a malfunctioning cell phone could generate sparks and cause an entire station - not to mention the offending gabber...