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...reporter and said, "Listen to this." Instead of the usual song, a Van Halen number, the speakers in the hanger exploded with the sound of a different tune: Fleetwood Mac's Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow). Reporters started laughing when they heard it. Such a clever move, they said to each other, to play Clinton's campaign theme song at a Bush rally. In Arkansas! But suddenly, with the ear-ripping screech of a needle being dragged across an old record album, the song stopped. And then a new song blared from the speakers. The crowd erupted in cheers...
...individuality of the states, indeed. If presidential elections weren't about the states, we wouldn't be in this fix. The Founding Fathers created a clever structure of the whole where everyone is free to be you and me. Everything in the design of the Union tugs away from the Union, which may be why the Union tugs back from time to time...
This side of the Atlantic, the extreme emphasis on singing seems anachronistic, but the Beautiful South's focus is clear. The band has three vocalists for the four instrumentalists, allowing for spectacular vocal range and clever bantering among singers. Still, there are signs of experimental distortion: spectacular songs like "Half-Hearted Get" show the expert hand of Norman Cook, a.k.a. Fatboy Slim, credited with "open groove surgery." Critics have often described Heaton's lyrics as bitter and cynical (the band's previous female vocalist reputedly left because of one of the lyrics). But on Painting it Red, Heaton comes across...
Samuel H. Perwin '04's wonderfully overdone movie star Vittorio Vidal brings charisma, vitality and a commanding presence to a slow first act. Aside from a clever rendition of the classic "Hey Big Spender,"-a ballet bar has never been corrupted so well-the pace of the first act does not get going until Perwin arrives and provides Flader's Charity with an object for her romantic frustrations...
...promptly to EMINEM. The rapper remembers having his notebook--chock-full of material for a soon-to-be recorded album with side group D-12--aboard a Delta flight from Cincinnati, Ohio, to New Orleans. But somewhere in transit the notebook, with perhaps yet another track featuring a clever rearrangement of the words "Slim," "Shady," "I" and "Am," was lost. Eminem is offering a cash reward or a personal meeting in exchange for the notebook's safe return. Anyone with information is invited to e-mail found@eminem.com Oh, the book has a photo of Britney Spears on its cover...