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McCartney's Driving Rain (Capitol) finds the sunniest of the Beatles in an inspired funk. The first track, Lonely Road, uses hoarse vocals and rugged Neil Young-style electric guitar (rugged? Paul?) to reckon with the departure of a loved one, surely McCartney's wife and much-maligned musical collaborator, Linda, who died in 1998. McCartney shows himself to be as adept at conjuring up angst as any obscure pack of teenagers in a garage. The hurt in his voice turns the innocuous lines "I hear your music and it's driving me wild/Familiar rhythms in a different style" into...
...like Bello when he is--wide-eyed, charged with energy. We never actually did the gig--the schedule didn't work out or something--but I'll pay him these compliments, from one clown to another: first, I had a great time--Bello is one of the sunniest and most generous men I've ever known. Essentially I was just there that day as a comic feed, and elder statesman, to feature some of his trampoline business, but I didn't want to be blown completely out of the water. As with any great practitioner...
...Traders like to talk about "levels," as in the 4300 level that the index flirted with in mid-July and late August before sagging each time to its current 3400-range lows. Statistically, an index tends to find parameters for each phase of its behavior, and the sunniest outlook emerging from Wednesday's mini-bounce was the idea that the trading herd won't take the index any lower than that "floor" of 3400. (Of course, some were claiming today that a further shakeout has to hit - 3200, 3000 - before the NASDAQ can rally back for real...
...slowdown? There have been plenty of worries about the effects of interest-rate hikes on the U.S. economy in the past few months, but when he takes the oath of office next Jan. 20, the next President, whether it's Al Gore or George W. Bush, will inherit the sunniest economic prospects to greet any new Chief Executive since Lyndon Johnson in 1963. Yes, it looks like the output of goods and services will be increasing more slowly. But the growth rate will slip only from one that clearly was too fast to last to a pace that...
Eclectic, eccentric and often downright funny, the album resonates with the hard-won truths of self-examination. Byrne still comes across as a man who knows that danger lurks in the shadows of even the sunniest day, but his attention is focused inward, and the result is illuminating. "I can barely touch my own self," he sings on Angels. "How can I touch someone else?/ I'm just an advertisement/ For a version of myself." Nothing at All builds from a funky guitar figure into a vaulting ode to alienation as Byrne sings, "And the knife is near at hand...