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...paperback. I bought it, instead of Mott the Hoople. I filed them away, at the time with people like the Kings, Alan Price, Georgie Fame, the whole one-nighters-through-the-Midlands group. The music? Who knew? Mott more or less stormed back onto the music scene at the tender mercies of David Bowie, who'd decided to Do Something with these boys. The single was "All the Young Dudes," maybe a homosexual anthem, and an album of same. It was an interesting example of expediency in action. Bowie's no longer producing Mott, and who knows just whose banner...
...hybrid meat will not soon replace filet mignon at finer restaurants, but compared with regular beef, it is more tender, contains significantly more protein and less fat. It tastes much like conventional beef but is slightly richer. Best of all, Basolo figures that it will eventually be priced 25% to 40% cheaper than the real thing...
...grace of both performances summons such fond memories, not only makes such comparisons inevitable, but sustains them. When Vicki and Steve make love, they are usually as raucous as they are tender; when they fight, storm warnings are posted. One frantic free-for-all is prompted by Steve's eagerness to have his prowess appraised. "Did the earth move for you?" he inquires (they are in Spain, after all). "It was very nice," Vicki sniffs, sounding a little as if she were recalling the funeral of a distant relative...
...buying and building businesses in the U.S., and this year the country seems to have been turned into a giant supermarket, with foreign buyers rushing in to buy corporations off the shelves. Notes Investment Banker Raphael W. Hodgson, vice president of Goldman, Sachs: "Last month there were seven tender offers for U.S. companies from England alone, and there is no reason why there will not be seven more this month...
...first place, he rose early ("busy day ahead") and did many errands according to a schedule, as elaborately as possible. He also practiced a form of positive thinking: "Almost all work is useless and meaningless," he tells himself, "and therefore the virtuous man will avoid working." To water these tender young suppositions further, so they can grow into a healthy prejudice, he quoted the opening lines of The Prisoner of Zenda: "'I wonder when in the world you're going to do anything, Rudolf?' said my brother's wife. 'My dear Rose,' I answered...