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...more effective we are in dissuading investors, like Pepsi, from backing the military regime, the quicker we will be able to restore democracy peacefully," Minister of Finance Bo Hla-Tint wrote...

Author: By Colleen T. Gaard, | Title: Berry May Choose Soda Today | 3/22/1996 | See Source »

...several other young performers are adding a blue tint to their sound. Last month British-born art screecher PJ Harvey released a blues-shaded album, To Bring You My Love; Houston-born rocker Chris Whitley has just come out with the bluesy CD Din of Ecstasy; and this week Chris Thomas of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, releases his blues-rap album, 21st Century Blues from da Hood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAINTING THE TOWN BLUE | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

Rock is good for rage, lust and protest. But for angst, yearning and existential misery, nothing beats the blues. That's why many young musicians are adding a blue tint to new albums such as British-born screecher PJ Harvey's "To Bring You My Love," Houston native Chris Whitley's "Din of Ecstasy" and Louisianan Chris Thomas' "21st Century Blues From Da Hood."TIME critic Christopher John Farleysays Harvey's music lacks "subtlety or grace," while Whitley's album is "painfully, almost uncomfortably honest." But it's not all bad. Farley says Thomas' work features a "crunching beat, brash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC . . . REMAKING THE BLUES | 4/7/1995 | See Source »

When Carter in 1979 changed his hair part from right to left and added a little tint, Pitts was aghast, confiding to friends, "That guy is not going to last." One Pitts theory was that untested leaders could, with seemingly % innocent things, set off a slide into oblivion. In Pitts' view, Carter's hair change was too dramatic, suggesting self-adulation. And when Clinton had his $200 haircut from Beverly Hills' Christophe aboard Air Force One, Pitts predicted an image implosion because the new President would be viewed as indulgent and undignified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: What the Barber Knew | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...hair, Milt, who adored the actor turned President, gathered up a few of his White House clippings, brought them out and showed them to the skeptics. The hair Pitts displayed had one silver strand for every 50 deep-brown hairs, not something that could be arranged in a tint. The fact was that Pitts had a fascination with Reagan's enduring and abundant turf. One day, while standing at the back of a crowd listening to Reagan speak, Milt leaned over and, with an affectionate chortle, said, "Look at him. Without that head of hair and that smile, he still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: What the Barber Knew | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

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