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...Then came Joe Biden, whose very lack of polish moved the message out of the brainpan and into the heart. Obama writes a speech with a fountain pen. Biden writes with his fists. But he was passionate and angry and human, the very qualities Obama has been tagged for lacking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Builds a Bridge to Obama | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

...York politicians looked like presidential timber, but Governor Nelson Rockefeller, New York City Mayor John Lindsay and Representative Jack Kemp failed to win their parties' nominations; Governor Mario Cuomo never declared his candidacy. Colin Powell was a flash in the pan; Donald Trump was a flash in his own brainpan. No New Yorker has headed a presidential ticket in almost 60 years --the longest New York drought in American history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In a New York State of Mind | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

...Feelies material at home, on his own, then brings it in for his four partners to "mold to the melody." "Glenn writes the lyrics, though," says Million. "We don't ask him what they mean." Witty and oblique, as if they just slid off the edge of a tilted brainpan, the lyrics snuggle into niches tucked neatly inside the guitar- fueled rhythms that sound like rock for a trance state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Dawn of the Feelies | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

...Walter Cronkite, is convinced that had the space shuttle Challenger flown only a few miles farther and then exploded off-camera, the story would have created far less of a sensation. The image of white plumes scattering in a giant Rorschach pattern is now engraved on every American's brainpan. Endless repetition did it: television believes that something shown only once has not been seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Newswatch: The Visuals Did Marcos In | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...GARISH, cosmic nightclub, the figures on the floor drug-addled, lobotomized, throwing each other over, punching each other up, selling each other out. Elvis Costello has played a lot of clubs these last few years; after an angry, violent American tour, morsels of America sizzled in his brainpan, and in Get Happy!! Elvis thrust his middle finger up her dumb whore B-Movie hole, the music as hyper-energized, as fractious and scrappy as the country itself. It was a smashing, reverberating disc that some of us thought would go through the roof critically and commercially. Alas. audiences and rock...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Something of a Middlebrow | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

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