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...bandleader and keeps a mug full of pencils on his desk. In Argentina, Roberto Pettinato is host of Duro de Acostar (roughly translated, Sleep Hard, a play on Duro de Matar, the Spanish title for Die Hard), which features yet another bantering bandleader, city backdrop and, in a variant on Letterman's trademark, a nightly Top 5 list. Dan Borge Akero, host of Norway's RiksDan, used to do a Letterman-style Top 6 list, but dropped it in 1996 when he ran out of material. Peter Jan Rens, host of a Dutch show called Late Night, which debuted...
Portishead's groundbreaking debut album, Dummy (1994), along with producer-rapper Tricky's Maxinquaye (1995), helped define the nascent genre of trip-hop, an arty European variant of hip-hop characterized by dreamy lyrics and lounging, lulling song structures. Portishead is another stellar work. While Dummy's sound was sweetened with recognizable melodic flavors drawn from R. and B. and gospel, the new album is stranger, more unsettling, more sour. Vocalist Beth Gibbons' voice is distorted on many of the tracks, stretched thin and left floating high and parched over shards of melody and jagged bits of rhythm. One song...
...training class, she became the Air Force "showgirl," as she put it, the first woman ever to pilot a B-52, the one picked to fly the Air Force Secretary around on her visit to the base. Known as BUFF, for Big Ugly Flying Fellow (or a more colorful variant), the B-52 is the largest bomber in the Air Force, 488,000 lbs. of titanium, aluminum and steel, rigged with eight Pratt & Whitney engines and a 35-ton payload...
...much for the E-mail revolution, which is now enslaving the desk jockeys it was supposed to free, creating communications problems (of all things) so new that they cannot be found in the pages of any management textbook. E-mail has warped corporate cultures and created variant strains of bosses who make E-mail the terror weapon of choice to subdue underlings and subvert rivals. E-mail has wasted years of executive time and gigabytes of computer memory covering corporate backsides or looking for lost keys...
...Internet has whipped facts, factoids and un-facts into a froth of conspiracy theory. In a piece published in the Nov. 17 issue of the New York Times Magazine, authors Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen trace the strange progress of the friendly fire theory across the Net. One variant: the bombing was a hit. Henry Kissinger was the intended victim because he was supposed to be on the flight--except that, oops, he was never supposed...