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...French electronic duo Air, who played Avalon on Monday, we find something truly sexy—a band broad enough to encompass the sadness and the ecstasy of it all. They are smart enough to realize that sex is as much about anticipation as stimulation, that it involves not only the heat of the act itself but also the chill of waking up to find yourself alone in the morning. They show why Britney and Christina, for all their gyrating, are still just Mouseketeers...
...band itself made no secret...
Bisexuality was one of many balances Air struck on Monday. Theirs is a sound as much about empty space as solid ground, as much about the notes being played as the silence outside. Even the band was evenly divided between the two Frenchmen and their two American backup musicians. Perhaps University President Lawrence H. Summers should have talked to these guys for his “Renewing the Atlantic Partnership” project...
...would be easy to write Air off as an easy listening duo—Robert Christgau once wrote of the band that he “remembers when easy listening was worth hating”—and it would seem that the duo themselves are not exempt from making this mistake. The line between ironic kitsch and muzack can be a thin one, and at times on Monday Air began to sound more like intermission than the feature presentation...
After spending months lobbying her fiancée for just the right Tiffany engagement ring with engraved platinum band and a massive 24k center stone, Angie C. Shoemaker ’05-’06 is now faced with the tricky task of convincing him that engagement rings are but ephemeral tokens of an eternal love...