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Technology was supposed to make companies more productive and smooth the economic cycle, in part by instantly matching inventories with demand. No more boom, no more bust. But the very technology that was supposed to achieve all those advances had its own boom and bust and greatly exaggerated the up and down legs of the broader economic cycle...
...transcends its waltz-schmaltz mood with a bridge that almost jumps off itself in ascending keys but manages to sound inevitable. The tune spawned two #1's (for Vincent Lopez and George Olsen) in its first incarnation. There were four more hit versions in 1944-45. In 1959 smooth Sammy Turner took the song to #2 on the R&B chart (#19 pop). Finally it became Patsy Cline's post-mortem anthem; the Virginia thrush's rendition hit #18 on the country chart in 1980, 17 years after her death. And still it didn't die: a tribute musical called...
...when the National Gallery bought Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Benci from Liechtenstein. Leonardo was in his early '20s when he painted this daughter of a rich Florentine banker, circa 1474-78. On the front of the panel you see the familiar face--that pale, egg-smooth, cold teenage mask--a girl soberly dressed in brown, the blue lacing of her bodice neatly echoing the blues of the far sky and the trees and water in the middle distance. Her blond hair frames her face in fine, tight ringlets. The painting prefigures Leonardo's later obsession with studies...
...treaty from going up," says a senior Administration official. The Russians apparently are still under the impression that the signed document will make the nuke cuts binding. "The Russians may think it will be," says the senior official, "but it won't." No telling whether the Administration can smooth that one over...
...partly because Aaliyah plays her role with an Egyptian accent, some dialogue touchup was required for some of the lines that she recorded to make them clearer for the audience. Rashad, her older brother, speaks in the same smooth, serene tones as his sister and so, according to a representative of the family, he re-recorded a small number of words and stray lines of Aaliyah's dialogue. Aaliyah's voice will not be completely replaced - Rashad's was mixed in with his sister's to give the lines more force and clarity...