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...Talladega Nights,” and Dave Eggers’s “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.” It is the ultimate ADD-song, jumping around from vignette to vignette with no real story. The song starts with the tale of a small-town girl and then, suddenly, a city boy. Journey never mentions them again. This is followed by a rocking guitar solo, and then a new setting: a smoky room. What is going on? Whatever it is, it is fucking awesome. The chorus is equally frenetic: “Streetlights...people...whooaooooaaahhh...
...Breakfast at Tiffany's set Hepburn on her 60s Hollywood course. Holly Golightly, small-town Southern girl turned Manhattan trickster, was the naughty American cousin of Eliza Doolittle, Cockney flower girl turned Mayfair Lady. Holly was also the prototype for the Hepburn women in Charade, Paris When It Sizzle and How to Steal a Million: kooks in capers. And she prepared audiences for the ground-level anxieties that Hepburn characters endured in The Children's Hour, Two for the Road and Wait Until Dark...
...cell phone can also be turned into a Don Juan miracle tool: thanks to Vumber you can get many numbers with only one phone - and even numbers from more desirable area codes. You can be reached at a New York City number one minute and L.A. the next, or small-town Alabama, where you really live. If the person dialing one of the numbers turns out to be a less than desirable caller, poof! the number disappears with a few keystrokes. "You can vanish without a trace," said Geoff Schneider, executive vice president of Vumber...
...Thant, such histories are not an abstract or far-off thing. Fully Burmese himself, he is descended from courtiers, and grew up (in Riverdale, New York) in the same house as his maternal grandfather, U Thant, the onetime small-town Burmese headmaster who became the U.N.'s third Secretary-General. The author's first trip to Burma came in 1974 when, just 8 years old, he returned to help bury his grandfather. That visit set off confrontations in the streets between rebellious students calling for a state funeral and the hard-line government eager to downplay the event-eerily prefiguring...
...flavors, like cranberry. But the major hurdle is just getting the drink on store shelves. To do that, the company will likely have to pair up with a major distributor, like Starbucks or Anheuser-Busch, which seems anathema to a company that has marketed itself as an idealistic small-town enterprise. After all, it was multinational corporations that almost put the brewery out of business in the first place. Timothy Calkins, clinical professor of marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Chicago's Northwestern University, cautions: "The key challenge on growth is, how do you remain true to your...