Word: borrowings
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...impossible to listen to this album without noting all the '70s punk/pop acts being ripped off left and right. It's also impossible to resist nodding your head and singing along. The Strokes may be derivative--of the Velvet Underground, Television, David Bowie and many others--but to borrow a phrase from Courtney Love, they fake it so real, they are beyond fake. Is This It is full of great guitar hooks, dry pop lyrics ("Alone we stand, together we fall apart/I think I'll be all right") and old-fashioned rock-'n'-roll attitude. Lead singer Julian Casablancas...
...decision isn't as clear cut if you need to stretch out the payments over four or five years. On a 48-month loan, you can generally figure that each percentage point you lop off the interest rate will save you $20.50 for every $1,000 that you borrow. You can head to cars.com on the Web, where an incentives-comparison calculator will allow you to see a side-by-side snapshot...
...percent of the population. But the Pashtun representatives in Germany are based outside the country, and whereas Washington had once hoped the former king would be a rallying point for the anti-Taliban opposit ion, he has thus far proved incapable of significantly influencing events - after all, to borrow from Stalin's blunt response to the suggestion that the pope be invited to Yalta in 1944, how many divisions has the king? Rabbani two weeks ago said Zahir was welcome to return to Afghanistan, but as a citizen rather than a sovereign...
...commercial for Nokia cell phone covers that feature the logos of ACC basketball teams, begins with two attractive young businesspeople, a man and a women, walking through the lobby of an office building. The woman realizes she has forgotten her cell phone and asks the man if she can borrow his. He hands her his phone, which has a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Tar Heels logo on it. The woman promptly throws the phone out the window, and explains, Duke. Class of 94. The man nods, understanding completely...
...Vampyrettes in lace (Grace M. Catenaccio ’04, Ipek Mutlu ’05, Cara Zimmerman ’05) perform a dance that’s part trance, part burlesque. Then they dive hungrily at a squirming baby in a cloth sack, smacking their fangs. To borrow a line from Count Dracula, this play is “pure otherness...