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...describe Beechnut Gum, sponsor of a Saturday night show he hosted for a few years) and "gesachtstehagen" (then, and now, undecipherable to me). You could say that Clark was to rock 'n roll what Pat Boone was to Little Richard: the nice white man who made the rough stuff palatable...
...soon was running The Committee, a panel of teens that chose records and monitored the troops. At 20 he got on radio and quickly established himself as a pioneer rock archivist, running perhaps the first-ever oldies show. And not something simple, like pre-Army Elvis. Wildly obscure stuff, rhythm 'n blues and doo-wop, mostly, all to the ersatz-black syncopation only a Jewish kid could bring...
...around once every few months with Alan Greenspan - yes, there are others, despite the aura Greenspan sometimes acquires of a Roman emperor with a briefcase - and fiddle with the money supply in an attempt to keep the business cycle from bucking too much. (They also do some other stuff, which nobody cares about.) Greenspan chairs the seven-member Federal Reserve board, and they are joined for meetings by five regional Fed Bank presidents. This 12-person group is the Federal Open Market Committee. Each board member has a 14-year term...
...more platelet aggregation, which makes a heart attack more likely." So instead of a drug, say devotees, prescribe yoga. "All the drugs we give people have side effects," McCall says. "Well, yoga has side effects too: better strength, better balance, peace of mind, stronger bones, cardiovascular conditioning, lots of stuff. Here is a natural health system that, once you learn the basics, you can do at home for free with very little equipment and that could help you avoid expensive, invasive surgical and pharmacological interventions. I think this is going to be a big thing...
...Committee (although she wasn't called to testify publicly) that when she went to Thomas' apartment in the early 1980s, the place was littered with graphic photos of nude women. When Savage met Brock, she says, he let her know he could ruin her. "He knew all this personal stuff," she says. "He wanted me to take back what I had said. I couldn't - it was true - but I was intimidated, and so I faxed him something innocuous. I was scared...