Word: acidly
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What a trip that Condoleezza Rice is! She recently told Bono, "I loved acid rock in college--and I still do." What else gets a Secretary of State grooving? TIME looked at Rice's eclectic playlist and asked her predecessors to name their top tunes. Can you match the Secretaries and their music of choice...
...process of cultural retrieval. Watson, 46, who traces her lineage to the Waanyi country of northwest Queensland, calls her blue "the liquid color of dreams." In this case bittersweet ones, for Watson's work expresses the disquiet indigenous Australians can feel in seeing their ancient artefacts in foreign collections. Acid-etched across the front window, the artist's museum piece seeks to challenge "the ethnographic perceptions of Aboriginal culture and traditions," says Watson. "The more that our presence is felt, and the more that people experience and meet with indigenous people on their ground, the more that those perceptions...
...rubbish they’re foisting off as entertainment. Just not ashamed enough to stop filming. It’s likely that the studios hope to bilk a few extra dollars from unsuspecting moviegoers by evading the press; by the time critics are able to turn their acid pens on Hollywood’s latest trash, the damage to film fans’ wallets will already be done. Critics lose. Moviegoers lose. Studios win…maybe. Savvy cineastes already know that films withheld from critics are usually terrible, and avoid them accordingly. Fans disappointed by this season?...
...college sports and so neglected in most of the professional realm. There’s no drawn-out series to watch, no seven-week playoff colossus that dulls the NBA until the Finals. There’s one start, one six-minute race to see who can outlast lactic acid buildup longer, and one hurried chance to get everything perfect. There are no timeouts, no pitching changes, and no substitutions. One chance, and one chance only.And that’s what makes the 5:30 a.m. stroll along the Charles so worth it. Boats don’t take days...
What this means is that depending on what time you tune in, you might catch a song by “Acid Mothers Temple and the Cosmic Inferno,” or alternatively, Zemlinsky’s “Symphonic Songs” played by the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Come Sunday, you can tune in to hear Reverend Gomes preaching to the fold in Memorial Church; “Crimson Sportstalk” comes on a half-hour later...