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These last two weeks have been a hazy existence narrated by caffeine-induced hyper-consciousness. And i concede an addiction to foreign substances: 'grade a ultra-pasteurized homogenized light cream and pure cane granu lated sugar.' Voltaire supposedly consumed many a cup--did he also die to life...
...emotion. In the course of two albums on his own, and five others with various collaborators, he has developed an expressive style reminiscent of the mid-1960s Miles Davis. He has also distinguished himself by his sideline as one of Hollywood's busiest composers: three movies with Blanchard scores -- Sugar Hill, Inkwell and Crooklyn -- are now playing in theaters...
...film composer that Blanchard, 32, is now reaching wider audiences. In the gangster drama Sugar Hill he uses the sparse, bluesy sound of a jazz quintet to underline the flavor of tragedy and urban decay that permeates the story. "These characters pull the trigger at the drop of a hat," says Blanchard, "so a massive score would have overwhelmed the starkness I wanted to convey." In The Inkwell, a coming-of-age comedy set in a beach resort in 1976, and Crooklyn, Spike Lee's drama about family life in 1970s Brooklyn, Blanchard sketches dreamy melodies with strings and piano...
...screws to the Dominican Republic. Any trade embargo, no matter how tough on paper, can't work if Santo Domingo's rulers continue winking at the cross-border smuggling that sustains the Haitian usurpers. Sugar exports to the U.S. account for most of the Dominican Republic's wealth, which isn't much. Serious sanctions would threaten an end to that trade if the Dominicans didn't close the border...
...that story was changing. David Kendall, the Clinton's personal attorney, announced that the second account had shown a previously unreported gain of $6,498 on trades in copper, sugar, wheat and lumber futures. The Clintons, he said, would immediately pay $3,315 in back taxes and $10,134 in accrued interest to the U.S. Treasury and $514 in taxes and $652 in interest to the state of Arkansas. Employing a phrase that became notorious during Watergate, John Broder of the Los Angeles Times wryly asked if the previous explanation had become "inoperative." John Podesta, the White House staff secretary...