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Austerity has tended to lose the fight to pizzazz. Shaker furniture makers eventually abandoned pure folk simplicity; Arts and Crafts yeomanry gave way to florid reproductions. Yet by the 1920s, both modes had been supplanted by a new phenomenon: the cult of the machine. Technology cast its spell over the national imagination, and the idea of the future became palpable...
That's Why I'm Here is no earth shaker, but it's pure James. The album commences with the title song, in which, after a brief guitar solo, Taylor sings: "Person to person and man to man, I'm back in touch with a long, lost friend." Having deprived his fans of new material for nearly five years, he couldn't have summed up their feelings more accurately...
Rogers used to sell maybe 20 lobsters a day and now serves 50 or 60. The tourist season has stretched from three months to six months, the crowds thinning somewhat in fall but not the cash flow. He diagrams his business with a salt shaker (Mastercard) and a pepper shaker (American Express). He switches the salt and pepper to represent the change after Labor Day. Family people in summer use Mastercard, older people in fall use American Express, "and they spend more, so I tend to believe people using American Express have more to spend." Rogers loves all the business...
...Fields, who once complained that someone had put pineapple juice in his "pineapple juice" (an oversize shaker of martinis), would be horrified. America is tapering off, and doing so at a faster pace than at any time since Prohibition took effect in 1920. In restaurants, at country clubs and wedding receptions, and even on the screen, it is increasingly difficult to find anyone with a stiff drink in his hand. Sighs Restaurateur Duke Zeibert, who recently began carrying Moussy nonalcoholic beer from Switzerland at his famed Washington watering hole: "I'm from the old school of Scotch and soda...
...Street analysts, helped drive down the prices of the networks' stocks until by last year, they were selling for 40% to 50% below what many experts thought was their true worth. Suddenly the broadcast companies started to look like bargains again, and the feeling spread that any mover and shaker with enough money and backing could stage an unfriendly takeover...