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Plop...click...whirr. It is not exactly lilting, but that electronic tune is rivaling Silent Night and Jingle Bells for popularity this Christmas season. It is the sound of videocassette recorders gathering tapes into their cradles and, with a twinkling of lights and the push of buttons, bringing forth a host of intriguing new images on millions of TV screens. The machines, universally known as VCRs, are selling at nearly double the rate of a year ago; with the holiday boost, December sales alone are expected to reach 1 million, a single-month record. ...Plop...click...whirr. The sound...
...themselves. HEATHER MILLS, an anti-land-mines activist who married SIR PAUL McCARTNEY last week, didn't have to worry about what type of flower to choose for her bouquet: she carried McCartney roses, a variety named after her husband in 1993. She walked down the aisle to the tune of Heather, which McCartney wrote for her on his latest album. And she was surrounded by McCartney's famous friends, including Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton, in an Irish castle the couple rented for an estimated $3 million. One convenience that Mills chose not to take advantage of was having...
...Broadway show "For Goodness' Sake" (his first Gershwin musical) to the 1957 "Funny Face" (his last original film musical, also with songs by George and Ira). He danced for 10 years on Broadway with his sister Adele, and in 10 Hollywood movies with Ginger Rogers. But in his signature tune from the show and film "The Band Wagon" he sang, "I'll go by way by myself" (available on the CD "Fred Astaire at M-G-M"). His achievement was solitary and unique - extensive and varied enough for the most esteemed practitioners of high, middle and low art to declare...
...lyrics are clever, full of dread of the future and longing for escape. On Slip Away, he wistfully croons, "In space it's always 1982," referring to the peak of his popularity. But the music feels like a collection of eerie sound effects in search of a memorable tune to adorn. On the covers, Neil Young's I've Been Waiting for You and Cactus, a song by '80s post-punk band the Pixies, the futuristic soundscapes complement good, straightforward rock songs that provide what the album desperately needs: energy...
Laurence Steinberg, a Temple University psychologist who studies adolescents, hears a familiar tune. "Adults have always been upset by the provocative nature of teenage dancing," he says. "When the twist was introduced, high school principals were saying they wanted to ban that...