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There is hardly an acoustic guitar anywhere that hasn’t had “Satellite” or “Crash” devotedly butchered on it, just as once upon a time “Stairway to Heaven” was habitually mangled. Matthew’s followers a so fervent that it is hard to find a word said against...
...this important art.” Anne Brown had a great eye for color, and in addition to blue floors, she installed red tiles, glass and formica in her bathroom, red blinds, white walls and blue floors in the den and she used rose-colored lightbulbs in the stairway. Unfortunately, the exhibition is so concerned with maintaining the minimalist aesthetic of the exterior of the house—only blond wood and titantium frames are used against grey walls in the exhibition—that the small blue floor is the only hint of the fun that the Browns...
...That night, I set out to check my e-mails in Peshawar's old bazaar. The only Internet place is up a dark, winding stairway, past a group of Koranic students weaving mats for the wall of a mosque. At the Internet shop, my driver Raza unabashedly dashes from machine to machine, staring wide-eyed. "Mr. Tim," he pleads, "can you give me computer lesson?" Impressed by his new enthusiasm for technology, I agree. Then I glance over at the other Net aficionados. They're teenagers, wearing baggy salwar kameez outfits and prayer caps, and all of them are staring...
...Chart mavens know it as the stairway, and the worry is that the investors running out of the market stop, think it over - and then keep right on running. The bad mood was sensible enough - American Airlines announced 20,000 job cuts, and those ripples claimed Boeing, which despite an expected boost for its defense business said that the expected commercial-jet slowdown manufacturing would cause it to lay off 30,000 of its workers. And when it became apparent that institutional investors - the big money - was leading the stampede that pushed the NASDAQ below another long-ago low of1500...
...prototypical fan of punk rock, he did not mesh well as bassist for the band. Bandmates Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Johnny Rotten had respective fantasies of rock and roll stardom—Jones was even an admitted fan of the Top 40 who often played “Stairway to Heaven” on his guitar—and founded the band under Malcolm McLaren’s direction with the explicit knowledge that the Pistols’ true purpose was to drum up publicity for the King’s Road clothing store McLaren co-owned with Vivienne...