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...rhythms. True to its title, it succeeds in conveying expectation and pregnant longing. As the track plays on, Mirwais adds further layers of nuance, utilizing scratches and other effects (including a poignant background vocal cry of “I can’t wait”) to abstract, smashing success. Connoisseurs of fine music are encouraged to avoid the ordeal of “Junkie’s Prayer.” Dramatic instrumental music is present—unfortunately it is obscured by a stunningly uninsightful voice-over. Horrendous lyrics that could have come from a random French...
...stuff, while Jack Nicholson, Ted Danson and Phil Collins have all had intricate hand-cut floors inlaid at their homes by Hollywood designer Laurie Crogan. The tacky old sheeting product has also been refashioned into modern "linoleum rugs." They were born in L.A. a few years back, when abstract painter Christopher Stearns decided to cover up his apartment's ugly kitchen with portable mats rather than install permanent flooring. He chose linoleum for its high kitsch factor as well as its unique feel...
...aversion toward homosexuality: "I'll admit it: homosexual acts do unnerve me." To his credit, he re-assures us that his distaste for "homosexual acts" is insufficient justification for moral condemnation. But the only reason he thinks he can separate the idea of being "unnerved" from a more abstract moral objection is that he is "unnerved" for purely visceral reasons, that he pales at the thought of a "homosexual...
...individual who is its subject, Faster is a fast read. Gleick creates a page-turner through his use of suspense. His chapters come full circle. Gleick is very good at carrying the reader through his profound arguments about time and its affect on us. His style successfully makes his abstract claims obvious and accessible in the small number of pages of each chapter. At times, however, Gleick sidetracks onto tangents, as in the chapter "The Law of Small Numbers" with its many symbols and mathematical discussions, is only weakly related to his argument. His thoughts get so muddled with heavy...
Strange as it is, this brings the words full circle. Because the presence of a photograph demands of the text what headlines and ink cannot provide. Pictures give the words an immediacy and a historical presence; no longer disembodied facts, no longer abstract referents, these opinions inhabit particular conjunctions of time and knowledge. As such, they require a response which can only be timely...