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...Winehouse era, the British exported their music, not their dirty laundry, which is why it's possible for Americans to recall the mid-'90s moment when Oasis and Blur jostled for the title of rock's best band in complete ignorance of the fact that the groups genuinely loathed each other. The divisive issues were class and ambition: Oasis' Noel and Liam Gallagher boasted that they had neither, while the members of Blur were posh college kids who briefly went by the band name Seymour, after J.D. Salinger's suicidal genius. Blur's music had oblique melodies and omnivorous influences...
...debate, but rather about making it easier to understand.“As much as we’re adding things, we’re also removing aspects of the broadcast so that you can concentrate on other things,” Gunther said. “If you blur their faces, you hear their words in a different way. It’s a fundamental perceptual shift, when you don’t have the things you take for granted.”It’s true: talking about the debate with friends over the next couple...
...story of a carapace of a widower whose life is changed by the illegal immigrants he finds living in his apartment. But as massively sappy as that sounds, the film so delicately and thoughtfully picks its tragedies out of the blur of everyday life that it has a quiet power. Perfect to watch with smart friends after dinner...
According to Richard H. Fallon, a professor at the Law School, the faculty raised concerns over the extent to which the new system will blur academic distinctions among students. Since Harvard is more than twice the size of both Stanford and Yale, many more students will graduate with similar-looking academic records...
...very front car was a large window, tilted slightly outward. I leaned my forehead against it and the train started to move. Faster and faster it went until we began to soar through the tunnel, moving so fast that the dim lights shining down from the street began to blur...