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Meeting adversity with wit: that's what Brits mean when they talk about "the Blitz spirit," and snowbound London is infused with it. It's the reason its citizens cracked jokes and conducted sing-alongs in bomb shelters. It's also the reason they seldom complain with sufficient conviction to make authorities take notice. They're too busy having a laugh. Customers have to navigate sheet ice at the entrance to a central London branch of Holland & Barrett, a chain selling health foods and natural remedies. "I'm not sure it was worth opening up yesterday. We only took...
...British tabloids gave rave reviews for her good manners at Buckingham Palace. She charmed David Letterman and swung by the Today show to sing a love ballad penned for her husband, "Le President." Most importantly, Carla Bruni, a.k.a. Madame Nicolas Sarkozy, has won over the skeptical French public with a well-calibrated Gallic mix of dynamism and demure. Still, the First Lady of France has a major public relations problem on her hands, in the last place you might have guessed: her native Italy...
...Waits When I listen to Tom Waits, it's as if I managed to get Bertolt Brecht, William Shakespeare and an old drunk vagrant to sit down and sing to me--a beautiful, heady mixture...
...phrases like Hail Marys on a rosary. Of course, he was not at liberty to give the context. But like a flailing Idol candidate, he insisted he couldn't be judged by his lines. His throat was dry! The judges hated him! If only he could start over, sing it all--the whole song!--Americans would see why he was their Idol...
...know. But now there are books, talk shows and self-help systems dedicated to unlearning that lesson. The Secret became a best seller by telling people that their attitudes and perceptions create reality. If you dream it, you can be it. If people say you can't sing--they're wrong. The true voice is the one you hear inside your head. Your mouth is not lying. Their ears...