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...problem is if the bad consumer news does come, it may already be too late. Shell-shocked consumers can stay inside for years - just ask Japan - and without American shoppers the recession will arrive. And if it does, it will probably come at the vortex of a very nasty global storm...
...another vortex of followers I discovered the ebullient Kid Rock, still wearing his trademark hat. He waxed lyrical about the Stones and the Who and in particular about how British groups had reminded Americans of their black musical roots. When he cited one of his American heroes, Bob Seger, I mentioned a relatively obscure early '70s Seger album that I recalled - "Smokin' O.P.'s" - and suddenly he launched into loud renditions of songs from the album. It was a wonderful moment. Like a celebrity human jukebox. Insert a quirky musical reference and out pours a song...
...stolid, confident. In place of dialogue, he stares, he slumps his shoulders. His trademark silences suggest a man who knows the ways of the world and doesn't much like them. He smolders, stone-faced, then without warning erupts into spasms of violence. One second he is motionless, a vortex of stillness. The next, he is beating a rival gangster bloody. "That's what is so exciting about him," says Takashi Yamamoto, the 38-year-old producer of TV Tackle. "We never know what he is going...
...Chappelle, the celebrity photographer who pinwheeled around John three years ago. You do find some of that in the Polaroid self-portraits Lucas Samaras made in the 1970s, when he used to develop the picture, then scribble over it until his face and form became tangled in a vortex of melting candy colors. You find it again in the flagrant comedies of Tracey Moffatt's Something More series, scenes staged for the camera, where bored babes get very fed up with Nowheresville, Australia. At the High's satellite galleries at the Georgia-Pacific Center, where there's a separate show...
While it's easy to snipe at AT&T's latest plan, it's harder to map out a better one. The telephone industry today is a vortex of change, shaped by rapidly advancing technology and a raging free market--oddly similar to what it was in the late 1800s, when telephony was new and hundreds of competitors were stringing wires. AT&T won that battle, becoming a well-fed monopoly. But now what AT&T does is also done by the Baby Bells, a slew of long-distance carriers, wireless long-distance providers and even the Internet...