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Here was gospel that cut to the chase: Ask, and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; filthy lucre; Eat, drink and be merry; salt of the earth; signs of the times; a law unto themselves.
Big-name country artists have forsaken the form--not only for filthy lucre, but also because mainstream success helps them "lose the sense of inferiority they've had since Appomattox."
Today, the Journal 's Asra Q. Nomani is an island of lust in a sea of lucre, filing a long, long, look at the slow, slow-sex industry known as Tantra.
The cover package tweaks second-wave Silicon Valley entrepreneurs--business-school grads lured by lucre rather than a passion for the Web.
It quoted Anthony Finkelstein, a professor of software at University College London, as warning more than a year ago: "The public was ignorant, the IT consultants were drawn by the lure of filthy lucre, the science policy experts were seized with a mad-cow effect in which their advice ceased to be rational, the nutcases were declaring the end of the world and a sensible, empirically founded approach to risk was lost."