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...Unusuals, because in the old days (like at the Regal), they just cooked. It's just that now B B has a band that's not only good, but it's big five horns, and piano augmenting the standard rhythm section with a rhythm guitarist as icing. Upshot? I've never heard him any better, and I've heard that repertoire numberless times. But if you listen closely, you can hear B B playing the same hybrid licks that Clapton and Bloomfield developed, and used to make themselves famous, with just enough humility left over to remember to mention where...
...upshot is fear triggered in the bowels of the Cultural Establishment. And out of fear comes the wary sophisticated cool brought to the contemporary aesthetic experience--the cool so heavy with jargon-full appreciation, that self-consciously watches 'consciousness' react, that talks about 'experiencing' an art it knows not how to judge...
...with the growing scandal -now being called the "British Watergate"-and it makes especially poignant one sentence in the self-censored editorial: "We should certainly try to avoid the situation in the United States in which there are ordinary prosecutions and a major public inquiry taking place simultaneously." The upshot is that discussion of the larger scandal has been quashed for now. If the same system existed in the U.S., the real story of Watergate might have remained buried while the pawns were being prosecuted...
...longtime mentor, spotted a novel called 7½?. Within a week, the pair had bought theatrical rights. A stockbroker's son but less than rich, Prince spent six months giving living-room auditions for potential backers; 15 chorus girls from Wonderful Town put up their pin money. The upshot was something called The Pajama Game. Within 14 weeks all the investors had got their original money back -the first of many payments that would eventually amount to a 774% profit...
...expensive these days that if they did limit reruns to 25% of prime time, they would either go broke or they would have to do all their shows on the cheap. Quality would suffer, they claim, and there would be less money for expensive specials and news shows. The upshot, they say, might be less employment rather than more...