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...beacon of middle-class charisma, a lover of being loved, a believer in the importance -- perhaps the primacy -- of image, metaphor, style. And an ace manipulator of media, selling his symbols directly to the people, on TV, without the interference of pesky journalists. It all makes for a wondrous '90s blend of show biz and politics, of Hollywood and Heartland...
...wondrous place...
...just fade 'em away." DIZZY GILLESPIE must never have had a brush with the collection agency: there is no fading, only gleam on Dizzy's Diamonds (Verve), a 3-CD collection spanning 1950 to 1964. Grouped into three broad grooves -- Big Band, small group and Afro-Cuban -- these 40 wondrous cuts show Dizzy setting the pace for some fast company, including Stan Getz, Charlie Parker and Bud Powell. The Big Band material blasts, the small-group sides jump, and the Afro-Cuban tunes sound drivingly modern. Dizzy is an Eldorado that never runs on empty...
...crowning touch to America's economic woes is the end of the cold war, a wondrous development for the country's future but a bombshell in the short run. "This economy has been on a wartime footing for all of our lives, and that's big stuff," says economist Sinai. "Instead of 3.3%-a-year rises in defense spending in real terms, we're going down in defense 5% a year." Besides letting huge clouds of steam out of the overall economy, the military build-down will take a huge personal toll on displaced workers. Says labor expert Lacey...
...most of his life. Now, with a little of the luck that is long past due him, this superb set should place him in the pantheon where he belongs. If it does, that fits in neatly with the scenario too. It was the unexpected commercial success of Columbia's wondrous boxed collection of Robert Johnson that sent other companies back to their vaults, breathing a little life into history. So Johnson and James ramble together again...