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...felt an urge to get on with life, to getinto the thick of things," he says...
...destruction of property might be common ways for restless American teenagers to rid themselves of excess energy, it's no laughing matter in Singapore. Michael Fay has been sentenced by the Singapore courts to four months in prison, a $2,300 fine, and six lashes with a half-inch-thick rattan cane...
...system, is "to lose your sense of decency. You have to be rude, brash, you have to be selfish. Also you have to start ignoring 90% of what you are told." He describes, perhaps admiringly, a vulnerable Ph.D. from Princeton University. This fellow wore $50 suits and thick glasses. He was painfully polite. Transformed, he became the quant from Hell. "He's got this personality suddenly. He could eat these guys alive," says the quant. For someone like this, academia loses reality, and from Wall Street's viewpoint, a professor with a scholarly paper is "like a two-year...
...Soul disc mainly features tracks that werereleased during the 60s R&B explosion, and whilemany of the tracks on here are great (check outthe thick, laid-back groove featured on southAfrican trumpeter Hugh Masekela's "Grazing in theGrass'" the best track on the disc--from theopening deeply grooved cowbell to Masekela'sinfectiously funky trumpet lines, this songgrooves hard) many others are uninspiring anduninteresting...
...mournful ballad "Mercy,Mercy, Mercy," and the four tracks by Booker T.and MG's (the only band that reallydeserves the label as `the hardest working band inshow biz'): "Green Onions" (which was named whenbass player Lewis Steinberg was asked to think ofthe funkiest thing he could), the molasses-thick"Hip Hug-Her," the ghetto-blues soundtrack to the1969 movie Uptight, "Time is Tight" and"Hang `Em High," an organ-driven remaking of thetheme song for the Clint Eastwood spaghettiwestern of the same name...