Book Review: 'Machers and Rockers'
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A macher, in Yiddish, is the guy who causes things to happen. A "rocker," in Mississippi Delta slang, refers to much the same kind of person, though the things that happen usually involve sex, and sometimes danger.
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Rock bands have long prospered by living - and selling - images of hard living and brash poses. But sex, drugs and rock &#39;n&#39; roll are no longer enough. The definition of cool for some acts now includes mobile phone ringtones.
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Memoirs by Anthony Kiedis, Tommy Lee and Dave Navarro dish on the high life backstage
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Popular books applying Darwinian logic to everything from religion to dating to dealmaking may fly off the shelves, but attempts to apply evolutionary theory to literary analysis tend to make novelists, English professors and other humanist types break out in hives.
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The Rock Hero Effect: In short, video games are the new CD.
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Across time and culture, the female predilection for chattiness and the male penchant for taciturnity have approached the status of unarguable facts. Now, two studies appear to bury these age-old stereotypes.
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Reviewer Yvonne Zipp skates through Nick Hornby's new novel and tackles fiction from Ivo Stourton, Jennifer Lee Carrell, and Missouri native Valerie Martin.
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The Onion Picker: Carmen Basilio and Boxing in the 1950s By Gary B. Youmans, Syracuse University Press , 214 pp., $24.95
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A user guide to Britain's new ruling class
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If you want proof that a cultural divide separates Europe and America, the book business is a place to start.
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When civilization falls, does it make a sound? Two books about the end of worlds--and what follows
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Hip-hop and rock, onstage together: itâs an idea whose time has come. And gone. And come again. And gone again. And so on.
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Susan Jacoby's new book bemoans the state of American culture. Not only are citizens ignorant about essential knowledge, she says, but they also donât think it matters.
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Former LED ZEPPELIN guitarist Jimmy Page, 60, is planning an autobiography chronicling the group&#39;s years of rock&#39;n&#39;roll excess.
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A new book offers a psychological perspective on what it means to share a bed.
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A stunning new concert film captures the Irish rockers in all their stadium-filling glory. The film might be even better than the real thing. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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In a season flooded with film biographies, there are fascinating books offering fresh and sometimes alternative views of people we've come to know onscreen.