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Flynt made a major splash on the national political stage during the 1998 impeachment of President Clinton, when he publicly offered $1 million for compromising information about the private lives of prominent Republicans, seeking to expose Clinton’s tormentors as hypocrites. His investigation revealed that Representative Bob Barr, a chief Clinton foe and fervent pro-lifer, had paid for an ex-wife’s abortion. It also raised infidelity allegations that caused Representative Bob Livingston, the heir apparent to Newt Gingrich as speaker of the house, to resign. As he told the audience in Sanders, when...
...GOOD AND BAD: Made a splash with its July launch as a PC answer to iTunes. But rules and restrictions on downloads that vary by song can leave heads, not tunes, spinning...
DIED. WARREN ZEVON, 56, morbidly witty rock-'n'-roll poet; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. A reformed hard drinker whose vivid musical tales were likened to mini-screenplays, Zevon first made a splash with the 1978 album Excitable Boy, featuring a novelty hit, Werewolves of London, about beasts who mutilate old ladies and then drink pina coladas at Trader Vic's. He went on to show his skill at tender ballads, true-crime tales and bluesy odes to doom and death in more than a dozen albums. After he went public with his cancer diagnosis last year, he produced...
...Brew (yanjing.com.cn) Foam Home Yanjing's official website opens with a techno-driven splash page, but the contents lose something in translation. Beer that's "clear and limpid with white fine foams" sounds more poetic in Mandarin. But there are introductions to several varieties of beer and a short history of the company...
...digestible for Western tastes. London critics were mixed on the show but almost unanimously besotted with Rahman's score. Though he bowed out as composer, Lloyd Webber remained an actively involved producer, and his penchant for spectacle is heavily in evidence. Among other special effects, rivers of water splash onto the stage, creating a monsoon effect--and a reason to avoid a front-row seat. --By Michele Orecklin