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...group, Paul Rogers, late of the no-frills early-seventies British group, Free, which sort of fizzled out following their 1973 album, Heartbreaker, and drummer Simon Kirke, likewise of that gloomily-concluded musical venture, join guitarist Mick Ralphs and bassist Boz Burrell with sax and flute icing by Mel Collins. Together they produce yet another collection of tight riffs--some might call them predictable--with a steady bass company and a highly-amplified guitar sound, usually controlled just short of distortion. They are not virtuosos in the mold of Cream members with their constant technical competition. Their compositions are hardly...
...guys won't skate for free," said Bob Stewart, a husky defenseman who runs the Cleveland chapter of the Professional Hockey Players Association. In effect, Mel Swig shrugged. He hadn't bought the Cleveland Barons, anyway. He'd bought the California Golden Seals. When they didn't draw, he had to move them to Cleveland, and now the Seals-Barons still weren't drawing and a moving company was looking for $70,000-and that wasn't in the Cleveland till either. I mean, it was fun owning a hockey team, but this...
...credit problems. Credit counselors assert that much of the legislation of recent years has been ineffective because most consumers do not know their rights under the laws. That points to a broader problem. Borrowers in general are appallingly ignorant of the basic economics of credit. Says Boston Debt Counselor Mel Stiller: "People are not taught in school how to use credit and how to do family financial planning. They just never learn how to survive in modern economics...
...didn't? Well, I did (even though Mel Shalek wasn't home...
...absurdly funny things in Mel Brooks' The Producers (1968) was the notion of a musical comedy called Springtime for Hitler. Now that conceit begins to look prophetic. In All This and World War II, viewers are invited in effect to sing along with the blitzkrieg, follow the bouncing ball to Yalta...