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...more of a funk girl,” she would claim, turning the dial as a Gloria Gaynor tune came across the radio. But dropping me off for my first year of college, she confessed, “I went to Studio 54 once. It was closing. I barely saw anything and left.” At the time, I took this extra-contextual detour as a strange, but earnest, act of de-maternalization—a PG-13 parable with the moral that, while we all at one point find ourselves in dens of vice, we can and should...
Hoffmann said he has spent his academic tenure coming to terms with “the most traumatic period of my life,” when he and his mother escaped Austria for France, where they saw Hitler gradually take power. Forced to flee Paris, he said they “never knew whether we’d be alive...
...prayers / Take a number where the blood just barely dried.” But this opacity comes at the cost of making sense. “Dustland Fairytale,” a badlands ballad about white trash, love, and God knows what else, features lyrics like: “Saw Cinderella in a party dress / But she was looking for a nightgown. / I saw the devil wrapping up his hands / He’s getting ready for a showdown.” Though “Day & Age” seems an attempt to show that the Killers are still...
...While no Japanese automaker is on the brink of bankruptcy, Toyota's executive vice president Mitsuo Kinoshita calls the sharp contraction of global sales "unprecedented." Toyota, Honda and Nissan are slashing earnings estimates, firing workers and trimming production. In November, the Japanese auto industry saw its worst month in more than three decades, as domestic sales fell 27.3% compared with the same month last year. Sales of Japanese cars in the U.S. fell more than 30% last month...
...that last comment, some observers saw an implied threat: if the Chinese, who are massive buyers of U.S. Treasury debt, took their money and went home, the repercussions for America would be catastrophic. At a moment when the already large U.S. budget deficit is poised to skyrocket, thanks to the various bailouts and stimulus packages Washington has passed to cope with the economic crisis, a pullout of Chinese assets would send interest rates soaring, and a deepening recession could become something worse...