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...Glitter album, amid all the techno-pop, the coloratura vamps and intricate layers of vocals, a few songs stand out as cries from a pensive soul. In Twister, a tribute to her stylist Tonjua Twist, a suicide, Carey paints what could also be a self-portrait: "She was kind of fragile/And she had a lot to grapple with/But basically she kept it all inside.../Dear God, it's all so tragic/And I'll never have the chance to feel the closure/That I ultimately need." Carey then soars into a passage that might be a request or a requiem: "Lord...
...christened his next group, Porno for Pyros, while flipping through a fireworks catalog. And when he started an eclectic summer music festival complete with freaky sideshow acts, he dubbed it Lollapalooza after hearing the absurd word in a Three Stooges short. Even his stage name is a word twist. Born Perry Bernstein, he renamed himself "peripheral": Perry Farrell...
...What?d I Say" was Charles? biggest hit at Atlantic -the company must have issued three or four versions of the song, including on an album called "Do the Twist With Ray Charles" -and the conclusion of his career segue from rhythm to rock. But he was just getting started. His really big band LP, "The Genius of Ray Charles" (with arrangements by Ralph Burns and the young Quincy Jones), teamed him with veterans of the Count Basie and Duke Ellington outfits, and he proved he could play with the big boys, winning their respect after initial skepticism. It also...
...reasoning, it seems, is yet another twist on the axiom that "bad news for Main Street is good news for Wall Street." That saw is predicated on the notion that bad economic news means the Fed is more likely to cut interest rates, cheering stocks and bonds alike with the prospect of cheaper money and stimulated corporate investment. And bad news there was - the Conference Board reported that consumer confidence fell in a July of stagnant stock prices and rising layoffs, and the National Association of Purchasing Managers said that manufacturing, in a coma for many months now, was still...
...wants Mike to know we appreciate him, that he still reigns, at least in our memory. The truth, though, is that we don't want him to come back because even for Michael Jordan, this would be an act of hubris so monumental as to make his trademark confidence twist into conceit. We don't want him back on the court because no one likes a show-off. The stumbling? That will...