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...classic verses, Koetsu was transcribing. Some of the most beautiful things in this show are the shikisi, or poem cards, in which the visual form of Koetsu's writing chimes wonderfully with the loops and eddies of Sotatsu's water, the spikes of his plant stems and the slow blur of his distant mountains. And Koetsu's calligraphies on sheets of paper pasted together, paper made in the subtlest imaginable tints and textures, a salmon pink abutting the most delicate smoky blue, display a sensibility that seems an etherealized version of Georges Braque...
...subtler means. Chilling ballads and tortured rock songs backed with acoustic and electric instruments proved Yorke and the boys to be prolific musicians, while the album's commercial success established Radiohead as one of the most creative and experimental mainstream bands of the mid-nineties, not applicable to the Blur-vs.-Oasis Battle of the Brit Bands. "High and Dry," "Just" and "Fake Plastic Trees" (immortalized in Clueless as Cher makes that "whiny college radio song" remark and shuts off the stereo) became instant radio (and MTV) hits...
...more intrigued by the antics of 2Gether, the pseudo-boyband that has its own fake weekly documentary and actually recently put together an extensive concert tour. After releasing their second album this past week and continuing to spike MTV ratings with their new primetime series, 2Gether continues to blur the line between reality and TV so much that I'm thoroughly confused as to what exactly is going on. Do they actually sing? When they appear in public, are you supposed to call them by their band member names or their real names? What do their groupie girlfriends call them...
Anyway, danger lies in the influence that the XFL could have on other sports bodies. Once fans latch on to the XFL, the traditional leagues may respond with changes of their own and blur of the line between sport and lower-brow forms of entertainment even more...
...world-record time of 3:13.67. "The last 50 m were rather painful," said Hall. "This is the Olympics, all or nothing. I doff my swimming cap to the great Ian Thorpe. He had a better finish than I had." While Hall was hurting, Thorpe's mind was a blur. "When I touched the wall I had this feeling we had won," he said later. "I didn't look up or anything." The Australians celebrated with some air guitar on the pool deck...