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...Despite showcasing some of Gondry’s finest visual work, the film as a whole lacks an earnestness, a naïveté, that came so effortlessly in his previous works. As silly and loveable as they may be, the characters’ relationships with one another only act as a pasteboard to the service of the plot, which itself acts as an excuse to watch Gondry show off his do-it-yourself wizardry.Then there’s the dialogue. With 2004’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” Gondry...
...think, something to do with America. I talked to Miss Dirty Martini after the show, and she told me that burlesque was an American folk art, the dance equivalent of jazz. There was something mesmerizing about the ability of these performers to transform the act of taking off their underwear into an event. It wasn’t just the shock of the nudity. I had assumed that hidden panels of Velcro would enable a dramatic baring of all available assets. Instead, each of the three burlesque performers shimmed their panties over their hips with a prolonged, deliberate awkwardness. They...
...ironic to be good. The disc’s eleven tracks are virtually free of typical indie obfuscation. There are no synths or vocoders. They’ve rightly realized that synthesis is not the same as pastiche, and that artists don’t need to act like fools or limit themselves to frivolity in order to create lower and therefore achievable expectations.Still, I’m reluctant to make any type of messianic claims about the band. I admit—bashfully—that I learned that lesson at a tender age with the Arctic Monkeys. That...
...China and her tenure on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Obama focused on how he would do the job ahead: "My number one job as President will be to keep the American people safe. I will do whatever is required to accomplish that. I will not hesitate to act against those that would do America harm. Now, that involves maintaining the strongest military on earth, which means that we are training our troops properly and equipping them properly, and putting them on proper rotations...
...struggling for what is legitimately ours. We will not tolerate this illegal act of secession," Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic told European lawmakers in the French city of Strasbourg...