Word: tinning
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...seriously as they seemed to take the conference, they don't take themselves as seriously as mainstream journalists do, either. On the conference's last day, someone brought an industrial roll of aluminum foil and dozens of attendees spent the afternoon walking around in elaborate tin-foil hats. If Judy Miller of the New York Times had thought to pack along a similar prop when she was embedded in Iraq - or practiced a similar sort of skepticism about her sources and her reporterly ego - perhaps the mainstream media wouldn't be as reliable a punchline at these gatherings today...
...could write the songs. Before Dylan, the decades-long Tin Pan Alley division of labor between singer and songwriter held sway. Dylan's success (and the Beatles') convinced every vocalist he was a poet, and every tunesmith an Elvis. Except in Nashville, the profession of songwriter disappeared. Whatever the lasting results - a lot of ragged vocals, I'd say, and tons of bad songs by singers who should never have picked up a pencil - but the singer-songwriter has been the m.o. ever since...
...Dylan, it was all to claim the crown of folkie purist. As he said in the spoken intro to "Bob Dylan's Blues": "Unlike most of the songs nowadays that are bein' written uptown in Tin Pan Alley -- that's where most of the folk songs come from nowadays -- this, this is a song, this wasn't written up there. This was written somewhere down in the United States." In fact, Dylan had kinship to those great songwriters, especially to the kids his age, at exactly this time, who were toiling away up in the Brill Building writing for Phil...
Communications are expected to be a huge headache yet again. During Katrina, New Orleans overnight lost $500 million worth of telecom structure--fiber-optic and copper wire--leaving the city's emergency-operations center at city hall with a superfast T1 line as useless as a set of tin cans. Deputy mayor Meffert ended up handing out Nextel walkie-talkies for all the out-of-town help and cobbling together a voice-over-Internet communications system out of old computers, which still serves the city...
Turning the screws even tighter, developers of new malls and shopping centers are less willing to take a chance on an independent without deep pockets, shutting small restaurants out of prime real estate. "The game has changed," says Rick Bolsom, owner of Tin Angel in Nashville, Tenn. "You have to be more aware of things outside your four walls to succeed...