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...That aircraft would have to be a mainstay in the international, wide-bodied, long-distance competition for years to come." The lesson was kicked off by Airbus' announcement of the giant A380 in 2000, when it was still called the A3XX program. Boeing initially parried with plans for the Sonic Cruiser, to travel nearly the speed of sound, or 20% faster than the Mach 0.85 of conventional jets. "It would have been great for North American, European and Asian markets, but it would have entailed higher operating costs and higher fuel burn," says Neidl. Airlines, racked by higher fuel costs...
...Duane Eddy, using a grain elevator to create reverb and twang. The anti-Establishment artist, who helped spur country-pop, shunned fame by escaping to Sweden in the '70s. But by the '90s the master of "cowboy psychedelia" had been rediscovered by alternative-rock bands like Primal Scream and Sonic Youth. Of his cult status he said, "Thank God for kids that love obscure things...
...than the grimy tailgates of my youth. Beside the standby parks and fairgrounds, this city’s bridges, rooftops, even its pools have been transformed to host a slew of performers from the up-and-coming (Rodrigo y Gabriella at the Central Park SummerStage) to the timeless standard (Sonic Youth in Brooklyn’s McCarran Pool). And, most recently, an obscure local punk band performed in my own garage...
...catchy hooks and grab-your-head lyrics that popped out of “Mysterious Production.” For example, even though the song “Dark Matter” begins with whistling that’s Bird-ish, it bursts into guitar crescendos and epic sonics that seem plucked straight from U2’s “Joshua Tree.” Consider him a revisionist, not a plagiarist. Bird’s music often complements a simple melody in the foreground with complex string arrangements in the background. However, in some songs, he tends...
...character who tells a woman at a cocktail party of the three possessions he would bring on a desert island—“Bob Dylan’s ‘Highway 61 Revisited,’ James Merrill’s Collected Poems, and my lucky Sonic Youth T-shirt”—then actually ends up stranded with those items. Starving and naked, he laments, “Every few hours I flip through the Merrill anthology in the hope that one of his poems will be about fire building or water purification...