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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...four tracks on the EP are bright and impassioned, the kind you want to shout along to at an outdoor festival. Their songs instantly recall The Smiths, yet are written with an intelligence and grace (listen to “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You”) that prove that songs can have roots in the past and still sound new and significant. Influence is unavoidable. Not everything will be groundbreaking, just as not everything that’s groundbreaking will immediately sound groundbreaking. The past 80 years have seen unparalleled...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SINGING ACROSS THE STREETS | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...Through the friend of a friend, Gabi has secured the name of someone who'll do the job: a man who calls himself Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov). Gabi is afraid of meeting him, so Otilia is forced to go on the errand, after borrowing some money from her own boyfriend. Mr. Bebe is an imposing fellow: solidly built and radiating macho menace - a solemn thug who thinks he's Brando's Stanley Kowalski. When he shows up at the hotel room the girls have taken, Bebe seems open enough: he lays out the procedure in blunt declarative sentences, Yet every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Not to Have an Abortion | 2/1/2008 | See Source »

...here it works marvelously, either forcing two characters together as reluctant conspirators or isolating each in his or her predicament. Bebe's examination of Gabi, and his insertion of the syringe, is accomplished in one harrowing shot. There's a bustling scene, at the birthday party of Otilia's boyfriend's mother, that becomes a kind of tour de force - a 7-1/2min. take, with the careless gaiety of the celebrants making the girl's misery all the more palpable. The next shot, off the same duration, lays out the tensions between Otilia and her beau. The style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Not to Have an Abortion | 2/1/2008 | See Source »

Throwing a divorce party turned out to be just the right thing for Lesley Rogers, whose five-year marriage ended in 2006. Rogers, a communications director in Seattle, met her current boyfriend that night when another friend brought him to the celebration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bye Bye, Love | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...opening coin toss, whether the first missed field goal goes left or right or if the jersey number of the last person to score is odd or even. Somewhere, someone is placing a bet on whether Jessica Simpson will show up at the game without realizing her boyfriend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stupid Bowl | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

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