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...played "What?d I Say" a thousand times on my plastic 45 in the third-floor back bedroom. (My parents, indulgent and slightly deaf, were two floors away.) I think even then I responded as much to the musical craft of the piece as to its hedonistic invitation to "shake that thing." It?s break from earlier Charles work was evident from the first note -on an electric piano that sounded like a guitar with a mitten muffling the strings. It was blues, all right, but (like so much other Atlantic music of the period) with a Latin accent, thanks...
...this point I would say yes, Norwood caved from his position, but I don?t know if he sold out. It?s not clear exactly how much Norwood gave up - we?ll have to wait and see how the details of the agreement shake...
...accessories, however, are not restricted to my Walkman. I also sport sunglasses, a large Red Sox cap and a layer of Coppertone (SPF 300) whose thickness Exxon would envy. (Only recently did I ponder the irony inherent in a name like Coppertone.) Other bikers notice the baseball cap and shake their heads with pity at this displaced northerner...
...rebate is supposed to delay that day of reckoning just long enough for Corporate America to shake off their excess inventories and start ramping up production again, followed by the long-awaited rebirth of capital investment in expansion, new equipment or in other companies. Alan Greenspan's six-and-counting interest-rate cuts will presumably help that along, but most forecasts see another six months before businesses really get their sea legs back...
Those family confrontations--when the mighty forces that August gathers on the stage clash, either with words or with action--are the scenes that are hard to shake. Just look at Troy. The way he bashes his soul against other souls is illuminating. I always felt he was one of those characters I wish I had really known. August says that when he writes he leaves some blood on the page. You can't get that stuff out of yourself without hurt. It's not therapy; it's more like revelation. He often talks about the pain of writing...