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...visual adventures. But it takes a long lens, pointing back, to bring into focus the ways in which his influence has seeped into the mainstream. Born in Suffolk, England, in 1948, Eno graduated from art school in 1966 and by 1972, with no musical training, he found himself swept into the world of glam-rock fame as a member of Roxy Music. Back then it was the feather boas, leopard-skin jacket and makeup that caught the eye, but what's lasted longer are Eno's abnormal squawks of processed sax and early synthesizer that punctuate the magnificent romp...
...there are other results that break with past patterns, Ornstein adds. Democrats did not lose a single seat - a feat the party had not accomplished since 1922. Even in the Republican sweep of 1994, the G.O.P. lost four of its open seats to Democrats. What's more, the wave swept all the way down the ballot - for instance, handing the New Hampshire House to the Democrats for the first time since...
...Lions opened their season against Duke, so they shouldn’t be daunted by anything the Ivies throw at them. They swept a Penn-Princeton weekend last season, so they’ve shown they can run with the big boys. Expect basketball to take Columbia’s athletic mini-renaissance (champs in women’s soccer, non-embarrassing in football) one step further...
...blue tide swept the U.S. last week. Years of G.O.P.gerrymandering couldn't stop the Democrats from "thumpin'" the Republicans, as a chagrined President Bush described it. And it was an especially significant Election Day for big spenders and women, though we're still not sure what it meant for Michael J. Fox. Here are four interesting revelations about the midterms...
...Ford beat Corker soundly in urban precincts (63 to 37 points in Memphis, 60-39 in Nashville) but Corker swept virtually every rural county. The addition of a ban on gay marriage to the ballot, which passed overwhelmingly by 80%, in the end helped Corker, despite Ford's continued campaigning to the center, at one stop promising to be a "Jesus-loving, gun-supporting" Senator...