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...years ago that discussed the former beauty queens reputation for clubhopping in the '70s and early '80s. He'd been interested in what he calls "the bubble worlds of the rich and powerful" for a while, and asked Cook to work with him on a set of songs that would be both about and in the musical forms associated with Imelda's particular bubble world. Here Lies Love was first performed in concert in 2006; Byrne had initially hoped to stage it in dance clubs. "In those days, there were these giant mega-clubs in warehouses," he says...
...belts "The Whole Man" as if it's one of her own hits. "The text on that one is almost one hundred percent taken from one of Imelda's wackier speeches," Byrne says. "She got into her own kind of cosmology where binary code, zeroes and ones, would turn into flowers and trees and heart shapes, and she'd give these speeches and do drawings at the same time. She did one in front of the U.N. General Assembly; I can only imagine what they thought...
...Government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn said during an afternoon press conference, "The government would like to assure the public that the use of force will be reasonable." Later that evening, Army spokesman Col. Sansern Kaewkamnerd said, "A lot of soldiers have been injured. We have carried out measures step by step. Protesters countered by every means including the use of bombs and real bullets." Local television reported that one foreign journalist had been injured by a bullet and was hospitalized. Most injuries before nightfall appeared to have been from rubber bullets and tear gas and blows. Around 6 p.m., helicopters began...
...darkness fell on Bangkok, it was not clear if the army would continue its operations throughout the night or wait until morning to resume trying to take back the city's streets. "All that happened today so far may come to nothing, depending on whether government can hold on to the slim advantage they earned today," said Tulsathit Thaptim, an editor at The Nation...
...executions [of Poles in 1940] out of a sense of revenge," Putin said at a press conference. He also disappointed many in Poland by failing to call the massacres a war crime or to pledge that the perpetrators' names, which are now sealed in Russia's secret archives, would finally be opened to the Poles...