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...Thereafter, Darin hopped from big-band treatments (a jaunty version of Charles Trenet?s "Beyond the Sea") to rock revivals of standards ("You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby," "Lazy River," "Irresistible You") to original pop stuff ("I?ll Be There," "Multiplication"). A 1973 concert, available on video as "Bobby Darin: Mack Is Back," shows that Darin finally got his wish: if not to be Sinatra, then at least to do him. There he is in his tux, tie eventually unraveled in the Sinatra style, singing some of his old hits and a few of other people?s. Ladies...
...know how mass delusions get started. More likely it?s going to have to be a general feeling that the economy (and the tech sector) has located the courage to start making new and exciting things again. Particularly the kinds of business-investment purchases that make higher productivity - more stuff at less cost - possible...
Microsoft Outlook, for example, can trash any mail not sent directly to your address. But that ends up junking a lot of useful stuff--such as the discussions on my journalism-school alumni e-mail list. AOL can turn away mail from anyone not flagged as a friend, but part of my job is to accept correspondence from strangers--like you, dear reader...
...exact number of tourists coming through town each season, but the village chief, Phet Hinthapatha, estimates the increase is something like 100% a year. He believes the foreigners are having a positive impact in a town that as late as 1998 was getting no tourists. "Look at all the stuff we can sell them," says the chief, sitting shirtless on a wooden bench, flicking at a wasp with a loose sarong. "Food, skirts, backpacks, toilet paper, even strange things. Foreigners like to buy strange things." He cites the example of travelers purchasing monkeys made from coconut shells. "The more guesthouses...
...admits that some of his customers are in town for the dope, but insists most of them are here "because Laos is a full-on, rad place that's totally blowing up. Everybody's coming to Laos and not just for the dope but because of the people and stuff." Bucktoothed, broad-smiling, with curly hair spilling from under a Beaver Lumber hat, Clarky is full of exuberance about his bar, his new business, his new country...