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Experience, though, makes me doubt that such protests would do any good. When I was a kid, my father drove a Town & Country wagon roughly the size of a supertanker. One day a forward-thinking uncle asked me, "Why does your dad drive that gas guzzler? Doesn't he give a damn about the planet?" When my father caved in and bought a Honda Civic, he displayed the zeal of the convert and--drunk on virtue and high mileage--indignantly began to point out land yachts everywhere. My brother and I, jammed into the backseat, felt differently. We missed...
...played early in their careers. "One of the only places they could come was the hotel." Mapfumo and Mtukudzi did more than sing. "There was always a message to the music," says Tavengwa. "They were singing for all Zimbabwe and rallying people together." In 1977, Mtukudzi joined the Wagon Wheels, a popular band that also featured Mapfumo. But both soon broke away to find fame on their own. Mapfumo was always the more militant. His song Hokoya (Watch Out!) got him sent to jail for three months in 1977, and Pamuromo Chete ("It's Just Talking," 1978), an upbeat reply...
Jesus isn’t the only religious figure to inspire epic monuments. The Midwest is defined by the word “big.” Chicago boasts the Sears Tower and the world’s largest Red Radio Flyer Wagon. Wisconsin holds the illustrious record for biggest grandfather clock, and in Michigan you’ll find not only the world’s biggest tire, an homage to Detroit’s favorite industry but also the largest bronze wildlife sculpture (of bears fighting). A strict Freudian would ask, “Just what...
She’s got the welcome wagon ready. “I’d take her on my team any day,” says junior Angela Ruggiero, who won a silver medal for the U.S. in Salt Lake and has met Hughes. “She’s really cool, very down to earth...
...Tartt, "patiently" is the operative word. As the precocious 28-year-old author of 1992's The Secret History, about a murder by a clique of college intellectuals, she won rave reviews, media adulation and a welcome-wagon of advance and movie-rights money. Then she withdrew to complete a novel that was to be finished in a few years, then a few more years. The lit-world gossips nattered: Was she a one-hit wonder? In hiding? Sophomore-slumped...