"Money for Nothing begins with the earliest days of the music video, when Hollywood musicals, experimental animated films, Soundies, and Scopitones fused music and image in ways that would presage...
But as McChesney shows, payments to politicians are often made not for political favors, but to avoid political disfavor. He analyzes the patterns of legal extortion underlying the current fabric of interest-group politics.
A P.G. Wodehouse novel The peaceful slumber of the Worcester village of Rudge-in-the-Vale is about to be rudely disrupted.
One of America's best-loved authors returns with a delightfully chilling new stand-alone in the vein of his bestsellers The Ax and The Hook.
See Joshua Cohen and Charles Sable , “ Directly Deliberative Polyarchy , " among other essays in Joshua Cohen's Philosophy , Politics , Democracy : Selected Essays ( Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press , 2009 ) .
Thompson testified that he had usually just “skimmed” the documents Hollinger sent him. The defense attorney grilled him mercilessly: “So skimming doesn't mean you read quickly . . . It means some things you don't see at all .
“Jimmy on the Central Line” is about a busker, an idea triggered friend Bob Mazzer's haunting photo, which we used for the cover of my first solo album. Bob is a highly regarded photographer today, capturing gritty and colorful pictures ...
Money for Nothing is a witty, wise, and often outrageously funny account of high expectations and easy money.
Dire Straits were a British rock band formed in Deptford, London during 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals and lead guitar), David Knopfler (rhythm guitar and backing vocals), John Illsley (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Pick Withers ...
I don't want to be a thorn to them. When I ask why she might be a “thorn,” she refers to the murder case I mentioned earlier: I have read it in the papers, and you will see it in courts or on TV that two sisters hired somebody to kill a ...