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...MGMT’s Andrew Van Wyngarden (with whom Barnes is now collaborating on a side project), Of Montreal look to do the same to the Orpheum on Oct. 30. But while it will probably overwhelm, “Skeletal Lamping” definitely doesn’t astound. The collage of music that spans its hour length was put together to shake up listeners, but will likely end up simply throwing them...

Author: By Ross S. Weinstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Of Montreal | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

Even without the Tiger factor, though, the upper range of the residential golf market--with million-dollar homes and six-figure memberships--has shown a resilience, while the lower and midrange suffers with the housing market in general. "The strength of the upper end of the marketplace continues to astound everyone," exclaims Johnny Harris, president of Charlotte development company Lincoln Harris. "The supply may be overdone in the less expensive locations, but there are golf courses still being built all over this country at the absolute highest end, which is astounding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiger's New Lair | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...This long passage will doubtless astound the American audience, since director Andrei Kravchuck, in his first feature, is unblinking in his portrait of ordinary life in the former Soviet Union. The landscape is uniformly grim and tumbledown, most of the citizens of have honed their survival skills to a nastily jagged edge. At no point does little Vanya eat a meal or walk down a street that would meet even the most minimal nutritional or aesthetic standards of even the poorest American child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Little Orphan Vanya | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...competition, boldly depicted the Tiananmen Square revolt of 1989 but was more concerned with the sexual politics of its heroine (the sulkily charismatic Hao Lei). She and her sex scenes were hot stuff, but the movie's critical response was tepid. Three war movies also failed to astound: Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a predictable rendering of the 1920 Irish battle of Catholic peasants against the Black and Tans; Bruno Dumont's Flandres, a horrifying but uninvolving study of Belgian farmers committing atrocities in an African war; and Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes (Days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Highs and Lows | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

...Maryland. Anyone can contribute, and thousands have. Just make a card and mail it to Warren-he suggests that you be brief, legible and creative-and, if he likes it, he'll scan it and post it on his site. The range of efforts (meticulous, sloppy, artful, ponderous) will astound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 50 Coolest Websites 2005: Blogs | 6/20/2005 | See Source »

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