Word: brits
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...Brit awards - the U.K. music industry's showcase bash - have been making headlines since they were launched in 1977. But usually those headlines are less about the music being celebrated than the musicians' booze-fueled antics. Pulp's Jarvis Cocker invading the stage to waggle his bottom during an overblown Michael Jackson performance in 1996 remains a memorable hit. So does Chumbawamba drenching Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott in water in '98. But this week's ceremony is meant to be liquor-free, because the Brits are growing up - choosing from a more thoughtful list of nominations and promising...
...first position when they sent off their paper to Nature as a result of the toss of a coin. Anyway, he said, ?I think I should have been first.? Nonetheless, skeptical colleagues in Cambridge for some months thereafter kept calling the double helix the WC structure (after the Brit jargon for toilet), because, said Watson with a triumphant grin, they were sure that?s where it would wind up. Predictions from the Future of Life conference for the year 2010: By then we?ll have sequenced the complete tree of life, possibly even breeds long extinct, including the common ancestor...
...group represented on this album is one you should know, not just because they may be enormous in a few years, but because they write genuinely good music. This is reflected in the quality of the song selection on the album—from Coldplay’s fragile Brit-pop ballad “In My Place” to the raw energy of The Next Big Thing in Rock, The Vines’ “Get Free” and The Hives’ “Hate to Say I Told...
...columns do nothing to reinforce our security. And they’re insulting to all those Europeans who share our values and want to work with us to fight the terrorists who killed so many Americans last year. Next time my American accent encourages another sympathetic comment from a Brit in the Oxford McDonald’s, I want to be able to tell her that all Americans value our trans-Atlantic partnership just as much as she does...
...debut novel The Piano Tuner features an array of elements familiar to Heart of Darkness buffs: the madness, the river, the oppressive imperialism. Like Conrad's tale, Mason's book traces a treacherous journey into the remote reaches of the empire. In this case, the voyager is a Brit named Edgar Drake, sent to the jungles of Burma in the late 1800s to find a man and repair a concert grand piano. Perhaps Heart of Darkness is an inescapable influence. But as Mason settles into his tale, the Victorian stuffiness melts. Drake, a confused man too modern for his time...