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...album that sold 2 million copies, Stewart got right back into his tux for As Time Goes By ... The Great American Songbook: Volume II. Stewart is a master of tawdry sincerity - he's rock's best B singer - and hearing him cover A material would make for a tacky thrill if he weren't so dreadfully serious in his approach. Instead of turning in a winking version of I'm in the Mood for Love or Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Stewart rearranges his phrasing to fit the classic material; neither benefits, and the result is an album that...
...Through this kind of dialogue, we can discover that all Democrats are not knee-jerk, vicarious thrill-seeking, bleeding heart, left-wing beatniks. And that all Republicans are not all the way to the right that they’ve come around back to the left,” Evans said...
There’s a distinct thrill to listening to music of all kinds (my playlist is apt to jump from ZZ Top to Handel’s Messiah…top that.) It’s refreshing, in a kind of hairpin turn, mind-bending sort of a way. If people ask you what music you listen to, you can shake your head slowly, with a wry smile and honestly say, “Oh…all kinds. That’s the kind of guy I am.” And wait for the women...
Gary Myers, 49, isn't a thrill seeker, but this past summer he leaped at the chance to travel to civil war--engulfed Liberia. Myers, who was a surgeon in Oklahoma, had grown frustrated with American medicine's commercialism. With his kids grown and some money saved, he volunteered with Medecins sans Frontieres, which placed him in Liberia. Seeing children with machine guns at the Monrovia airport, "I really thought I was flying into hell," he says. He worked hard, ignoring the mortar fire at sunrise and sunset as patients with serious gunshot wounds stumbled in. Whereas...
...Suddenly the workaholic had nothing but free time. "It was very hard to walk away from Gillette at that age--[I didn't want] to replace those intellectual challenges with golf," he says. He tried traveling, and he puttered around his Longmeadow, Mass., home, but nothing gave him the thrill of international work. Having done some Gillette work in Eastern Europe, he jumped when a former co-worker suggested that he sign up with I.E.S.C., which assigned him to projects in Kazakhstan and Russia. He's now back to fast-paced work, converting biochemical-warfare facilities into peacetime factories...