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Jonathan S. Bell '97 says he keeps in touch with his girlfriend at Cornell by "writing e-mail a few times a day and trying to talk for a half-hour each night, but it doesn't always happen." Bell finds the speed of e-mail communication especially helpful to his relationship. E-mail is "like a letter, but it is instantaneous. it is a good way to keep up on each other's lives...
Occasionally e-mail can put a strain on a romantic interchange. "It is hard sometimes because you can't always interpret certain things, like a joke, or if the person is happy or sad," says Bell...
Those of you who read last week's FM will know why I briefly considered changing the name of this column to "Ringing Burt's Bell." Since nothing really rung my bell this week, though, I decided to put off the name change for at least another week, after which time I will have forgotten all about...
...Bohemian Rhapsody." And if THAT doesn't make you run out and purchase Teen Beat 96 Exploder, you are well and truly lost to the oversuspicious, cynical minimalism that will damn this generation, if anything does, permanently and without respite. I admit it: this record rung my bell. Next week you, and I, will get to see if the new Pavement CD does...
Unashamedly derivative, Face the Music lifts -- sometimes actually samples -- grooves from 20 years of soul, funk and rap, at different moments aping the likes of Earth, Wind and Fire, James Brown, Bell Biv Devoe and Prince. After a short introduction in which the Kids announce, "We've been away for a while, but we're back," the record gets off to a promising start with You Got the Flavor, which sets silky harmonies to a hip-hop beat before sliding into a bratty rap digression worthy of Wahlberg's younger brother Marky Mark...