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...show’s writer-performer—a member of the Arts First planning board—for a Council on the Arts grant was declined on the grounds that it did not clearly fit its sponsorship guidelines of “artistic innovation” and wide appeal among the student body. In a postscript to the form rejection letter, then-OFA Director Myra Mayman wrote, “Given the broad range of audience and ages that Arts First attracts, and the casual nature of attendance, the Council thinks that Arts First isn?...
...appeal has been filed, I’m not aware of it; nothing has come to me officially,” Russell said...
Their repeated appeals to this premise render their arguments entirely question-begging. For example, they state that the Fourth Amendment’s ban against “unreasonable” searches and seizures is “unequivocal”—yet the Framers’ textual appeal to “reasonableness” as the standard to judge such intrusions evinces a committment to pragmatic analysis that belies Debartolo and Freinberg’s dogmatism...
...return to the jittery rhythms of “Planet Rock” and its progeny, but rather to Kraftwerk and the cool futurisms of synth-pop. Herein lies the problem; the profound inhumanity of machine music was central to the latter group’s ethos and appeal. With the radio often sounding more deranged and metallic than those early experiments, this late revival really comprises some of the oldest sounding new music around...
...candidates “need to outflirt, outsmart and outlast their competition using their wit, charm and sex appeal,” the show’s website reads...