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Predictably, nerves frayed. Clarke, who was widely loathed in the CIA, where he was accused of self-aggrandizement, began to lose credibility. He cried wolf, said his detractors; he had been in the job too long. "The guy was reading way too many fiction novels," says a counterterrorism official. "He turned into a Chicken Little. The sky was always falling for Dick Clarke. We had our strings jerked by him so many times, he was simply not taken seriously." Clarke wasn't the only one living on the edge. So, say senior officials, was Tenet. Every few days...
CLARKE: CRYING WOLF...
...mature stores (those open more than five years) average 6% annual revenue growth, vs. 1.5% for the typical chain. Annual sales per square foot--a key measure of a retailer's health--are about $650 at Whole Foods, compared with about $450 at many conventional supermarkets. Says analyst Andrew Wolf of BB&T Capital Markets: "They've become a power retailer like a Home Depot...
...couple of Sun anthologies: the newly issued two-CD set "Sun Records: The 50th Anniversary Collection" (from BMG Heritage); and the older, fuller three-CD opus, "The Sun Record Collection" (on the ever-dependable Rhino label). The BMG set has some strange omissions: there's no Howlin' Wolf, whom Phillips called the greatest artist he ever recorded ("This is where the soul of man never dies"); no "Good Rockin' Tonight"; and, criminally, no "Great Balls of Fire," the Jerry Lee Lewis number that ... well, I'll save those superlatives for later...
...just the pumping piano and the pulverized drums. The first instrumental verse starts with a sassy, Jelly Roll Morton-style line, then bangs out another four-time, four-note, four-on-the-floor figure with, this time, four arpeggios; it's how a sex-crazed Tex Avery cartoon wolf would express himself if he could play hot piano. Then the right hand pounds the same four high keys while the left hand describes a familiarly stealthy boogie-woogie figure, creeping up and down the lower register. We're back into the bridge, Jerry Lee's enunciation more forceful, and rampaging...