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...time for y'all to put some gas in your tanks," shouts Billy Blanks. He cranks up the volume on the stereo, and the Billy Blanks' World Training Center in Sherman Oaks, Calif., is flooded with the ragged sounds of Rob Base & D.J. E-Z Rock and human agony. Teeth clenched, sweat dripping, 150 men and women kick out their right feet, then bow at the waist and kick back their left feet. "Lean, guys, lean!" commands Blanks, as he demonstrates the move from a stage emblazoned with the message GOD IS GOOD. He then adopts a fighter's stance...
Sprawling cat-like on top of a podium in Emerson Hall last night, performance artist Holly Hughes described for more than 200 people how she fled the working-class Michigan town of her youth, "a world of E-Z Care Fabric and Hamburger Helper" and became a "separatist lesbian...
...most of us voluntarily give out our phone number and address when we allow ourselves to be listed in the White Pages. Most of us go a lot further than that. We register our whereabouts whenever we put a bank card in an ATM machine or drive through an E-Z Pass lane on the highway. We submit to being photographed every day--20 times a day on average if you live or work in New York City--by surveillance cameras. We make public our interests and our purchasing habits every time we shop by mail order or visit...
...boring. Moxy Fruvous mixes things up, offering a funny song about a poor guy whose girlfriend says, "Hon drop dead, I'd rather go to bed/with Gabriel Garcia Marquez.' Cuddle up with William S. Burroughs, Leave on the light for bell hooks." There's also an ode to the e-z recliner chair, "The Lazy Boy," and a cover the "Spiderman" song. These guys even top the diversity of Phish, with a song about Morpheus, Greek god of sleep--in French no less...
That year Quasha made one of his worst investments, paying $36 million (probably twice its real worth) for E-Z Serve, a stodgy owner of gas pumps at 900 rural service stations and convenience stores. It suffered every travail from management infighting to IRS audits to environmental disasters. Seven states have cited E-Z Serve for soil or groundwater contamination...