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...sort of bittersweet tale Hans Christian Andersen might have spun. An old man with a vacant stare was discovered sitting in a wheelchair at a dog-racing park. Two attached notes identified him as an Alzheimer's patient in need of round-the-clock nursing care. Outrage and sympathy poured in from around the country, and complete strangers offered to take...
...incomplete version with a barrel 165 yards long. But Western intelligence agents in the Middle East are nervously tracking another design that is much easier to build. Unlike earlier models, the new weapon uses ordinary 1/8-in. bridge wire, a steel fiber common in the construction of suspension bridges. Spun while red-hot around large-diameter steel pipe, the wire strengthens the barrel enough to withstand the pressures of firing long-distance shells. Syria, Libya and other potential users would have no trouble manufacturing such guns...
...Broudie puts a Hammond organ and seamless vocals into an upbeat, trippy groove. Sometimes, he throws in a trumpet or an accordion or a harmonica for novelty. Generally, it comes out like spun sugar, fuzzy and sweet with no edge whatsoever...
These days plenty of wows are wafting through Hollywood. Wayne's World, the whimsical but relevant movie expanded from a recurring bit on TV's Saturday Night Live, reeled in an impressive -- no, an excellent -- $18 million in its opening weekend. Not since The Blues Brothers, a 1980 movie spun off from SNL characters, has a TV skit provided the cue for such a quick movie moneymaker. But The Blues Brothers' tab ran a chunky $30 million; Wayne's World cost less than $15 million and reaped lots of cheap promotion with an MTV special. For an industry eager...
...night Beck spun such tunes as "Ob la di, Obla da," "All of Me," an old Elvis tune, as well asthe traditional favorites like "Amarylla ByMorning...