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Though the stubborn presence of the past is all around us, Elvis is the only cultural icon to have inspired a passionate denial of the fact of extinction. Perhaps this is because his career died without Elvis himself actually expiring, and collective memory has woven into the fabric of myth the striking spectacle of a man living beyond his life. Elvis reached the peak of his fame at the age of 23 in 1958, the year Colonel Tom Parker, his business manager, encouraged the world-famous singer to enter the Army. Parker figured that in the interim, the record companies...
Though the stubborn presence of the past is all around us, Elvis is the only cultural icon to have inspired a passionate denial of the fact of extinction. Perhaps this is because his career died without Elvis himself actually expiring, and collective memory has woven into the fabric of myth the striking spectacle of a man living beyond his life. Elvis reached the peak of his fame at the age of 23 in 1958, the year Colonel Tom Parker, his business manager, encouraged the world-famous singer to enter the Army. Parker figured that in the interim, the record companies...
...Could be he's just too damn stubborn to die. He may see the Oldies Show of rock 'n roll pioneers as a last-man-standing competition, in which he is determined to outlive Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino and other pretenders to the throne - the jewel-encrusted piano stool - he always believed was his. You know what he said back in 1977 when he heard Elvis had died? "Another one outta...
...last week, the news stayed nasty. Even as some of the biggest wildfires were brought under control, more than two dozen blazes still raged across nearly a million acres in eight western states. Meanwhile six more states in the heartland and Pacific Northwest were placed on fire alert, and stubborn drought and searing heat threatened to turn the East flammable...
...uncommon position for Malone, who has a deep distrust of government and counts Ronald Reagan and Dwight Eisenhower among his heroes. But Malone also has a stubborn and patient sense of the value of a deal. So when the German Cartel Office demanded that he spend an extra $1 billion to $2 billion to upgrade the country's aging cable lines and offer cable telephony immediately--instead of gradually, as he had planned--he decided to walk away, as he often has at the last minute. "A very wise man," Liberty Media CEO Robert (Dobb) Bennett said at the recent...