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...settings. "Riot in Cell Block #9" (later speeded up and jollied up for Elvis as "Jailhouse Rock"); "Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots" (about a moto-madman who "hit a screamin? diesel that was California-bound"); and "Framed" (in which the narrator is picked up by cops, fingered by stool pigeon, railroaded by prosecuting attorney). Lumpen tragicomedies, they had an implicit warning for their black listeners: that life was unfair to the underclass. As Leiber says in the "What?d I Say" book: "A lot of this had to do with being a white kid?s take on a black...
...Omen A British company has invented a toilet, the Versatile Interactive Pan, that can analyze urine and stool samples?and notify a doctor of any problems via e-mail...
...recognizably the wizard of Waukesha, the garage mechanic's son who revolutionized the way music was played and recorded. And since he turned 86 just two days before, and is looking forward to celebrating his birthday with some famous friends, Paul has a special glow. He sits on a stool surrounded by a few admiring musicians and starts playing 'Over the Rainbow' on one of his famous guitars...
...been even at the dawn of the 20th century, there's no doubt about the Edenic promise of California to generation after generation of Americans. To the gold seekers of 1850 no less than to the desperate migrant Okies of the Depression, to the wannabe actress on the bar stool in Schwab's as to the migrant lettuce pickers from Mexico and the Jewish kid getting into the nickelodeon business, California signified hope, plenty, release and transcendence. It was the New World's New World. "That's why I can hardly wait/ Come on and open up that Golden Gate...
...Unlike Allianz's takeover of Dresdner, where there is little overlap, merging two big banks has the attraction of instant cost savings as the two close down duplicate branches. More importantly, with Allianz's linkup with Dresdner, the German financial scene seems more and more like a three-legged stool: Allianz and Dresdner, Munich Re and HypoVereinsbank, and Deutsche Bank. With traditional banking taking a backseat to the more profitable business of asset management, Commerzbank seems isolated and may now be amenable to a deal. One thing seems clear: the restructuring of Germany Inc. has only just begun...