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...this album, she showily displays her talent without varying her style or expressing any real growth since “Citrus.” Her light and airy voice, somewhat reminiscent of Regina Spektor, never seems to descend from the highest octaves. On “In the Sky,” one of the album’s best examples of her limited vocal experimentation, she groups her phrases into short bursts, shooting up the octave over and over as if she was not yet content with how high her voice can reach. Whereas “Citrus?...
...remember any of those wonderful things she said to me every single hour, but I can still think up her paying for that dumb canary. She had the surest smile I’d ever seen.Ezekiel hustled the horses and I finally came to, pretending the sky was clear and pretending to watch it. But I kept thinking of Mama, and when I looked at Ezekiel, I had to wonder if she would have liked that he was free now, driving our carriage as proud as lemons past fields that Sherman had lit up and shut down...
...such innovation coming out of Europe, so often dismissed as bereft of new business thinking? There are several reasons but foremost is competition. The U.S. newspaper landscape is a patchwork of one-newspaper towns. Profits are traditionally sky-high - margins run to 30% in some cases - and so is resistance to change. By contrast, Europe is a bloody battleground of national dailies, all clawing at one another. Competition breeds creativity, not to mention a willingness to live with slimmer profits. "The U.S. lost the beat on newspapers around the year 2000," says Vin Crosbie, a partner at media-consulting firm...
...Candela says Murdoch is doing well in Italy. Sky Italia registered earnings of $3.2 billion last year, closing in on RAI ($3.7 billion) and Mediaset ($4 billion). The Berlusconi-Murdoch showdown is the inevitable result of the "convergence" of free and pay television, Candela says, and may finally lead to the end of the 20-year-old duopoly between Mediaset and Rai. "As the TV system reaches maturity, we're now seeing open combat for ratings, profit and talent," says Candela. (Read TIME's TV blog, Tuned...
...international communication at the University of Perugia, says both moguls may be realizing they have misjudged the situation. "They underestimated each other," says Redmont, a former Associated Press bureau chief in Italy. "Murdoch thought he was getting a monopoly on [pay TV], and Berlusconi didn't expect that Sky would grow so quickly." Given that both men are known for their business pragmatism, perhaps it's time for another lunch...