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...more Replacements-tinted tunes, like late ’80s tracks “Lewis” and “The River of Water,” though subsequent albums also feature shiny happy radio moments (most agreeably on Electr-O-Pura’s “Tom Courtenay”). Standing alone, these songs are pleasant enough, but the effect can be unsettling when these songs follow more experimental tracks...
...error of the thinking, that if you don't like what's going on, change the rules. I think there's beginning to be an atmosphere in our country that shows the arrogance of power is not good. Take for example what's going on in the House. Tom Delay was censured three times within 12 months, that's unheard of, but he won't be censured again because they changed the rules. The Schiavo case is another example of overreaching...
...Tom Delay's efforts to mobilize conservative groups to rebut Democratic attacks on him: "I think they are trying to shore up the base. It suggests they have some concerns. I don't think it suggests there's been any major shift. But they are concerned it may be starting to penetrate beyond the Beltway or they wouldn't be doing this...
...aviator, the hillbilly Lindy who shot down 13 German aircraft in World War II (five in one day) and went on to become the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound and live. His legendary career as a test pilot and hell raiser was sketched in Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff. Played by Sam Shepard in the movie, Yeager inspired the film's strongest image: the sooty phoenix emerging from the desert after bailing out of his burning plane. Now 62, the real Yeager stars in auto-parts commercials as a persuasive...
...Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has ordered that incoming Austrian wine, and any of the wine already in the U.S., not be shipped to retailers until tested by an approved, independent U.S. laboratory. Says the agency's Tom Hill: "What we are saying is, 'Don't drink any Austrian wines, period...