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Schippers played a tape recording of Clinton's testimony in the Jones case, and the committee room went silent as Clinton hemmed and hawed over whether he was ever alone with Lewinsky. Clinton sat stony-faced through another piece of tape when his lawyer, Bob Bennett, insisted to the judge that Lewinsky had signed an affidavit stating that she and the President had never had sex. And Schippers referred to the famous Clintonian phrase "it depends on what the meaning of is is" from the August session with the grand jury. "That single declaration," Schippers said, "reveals more about...
Concerts can be soothing to the ears, but the fits and starts of practice sessions are rarely harmonious. Yamaha's new Silent Electric Cello ($2,500) helps keep neighbors and relatives of musicians from tearing their hair out by channeling nearly all sound to an internal audio receiver and computer chip, then sending it to headphones plugged into the cello. A Silent Violin is also available...
...ensue. Dylan took full advantage of the polite reception that his solo acoustic performance was receiving. On "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," every "s" is hissed like Shakespeare had intended. "The emptyhanded painter from the streets is painting crazy patterns on your sheets" cut through the silent night air like an icecovered blade. It is actually quite sickening how quiet the audience was. They clapped as if they were at tennis match. It was as if Dylan was singing to an empty room. Dylan continued his phonetic retort, savoring every "Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song...
...characters were also never alone on the stage but were surrounded by usually silent, black-clad figures who, like a modernized Greek chorus, enacted and visually expanded the ideas behind each scene. The characters were another of Bishop's methods of heightening the theatricality of the play...
Some of the most influential business journalism of this heady postwar era was published between the hard covers of books. William H. Whyte's The Organization Man (1956) and Vance Packard's The Status Seekers (1959) skewered conformity within the corporation. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) condemned corporate polluters and gave birth to the environmental movement. Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) led to drastic, overdue and life-saving changes in auto-safety standards. The underside of American business was also revealed in such hand-to-mouth, left-leaning publications as I.F. Stone's Weekly and Dorothy...