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Meaning and Women of the Billy Joel Classic “Uptown Girl”

The story goes something like this: a downtown, working-class guy meets an upper-class, out-of-his-league girl, but he still pursues her anyway. This is the gist of Billy Joel’s 1983 hit “Uptown Girl,” released on his ninth album An Innocent Manbut the meaning behind the working-class and upper-class love story was never about one woman in …

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Billy Durant: Lansing’s overlooked auto innovator

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Blast From the Past… Bill Castanier In Lansing, auto pioneer Billy Durant gets little recognition. His contemporary the late Ransom E. Olds, founder of REO Motors and Oldsmobile, dominates local automotive history discussions, has the RE Olds Transportation Museum named after him, and a festive parade “big head” designed in his honor. Meanwhile, Durant, who …

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