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...stage, with no sets and only one glitzy production number--and decided it could make a hit movie without what is known in Hollywood as a radical rethink. Somebody figured that the sad, frayed lives of show-biz gypsies (always described, never shown) would strike a responsive chord in today's party-time teens. Somebody counted the Oscars and box-office grosses of Gandhi and determined that a British director in his 60s would be just the man to bring this musical Manhattan psychodrama to the screen. Somebody chose to film the dance sequences with a cinematic scythe that cuts...
...away with singing almost anything on top of a good power chord. Don't believe it? Just ask the guys from Def Leppard. I hear they pour sugar on themselves in Capri this time of year. Coldplay's new album, X&Y, is brimming with the kind of ecstatic, levitating power chords destined to make the band super-rich and have their considerable fan base screaming happily into one another's faces at concerts. Almost all the album's 13 songs have been composed with stadiums in mind, and Jonny Buckland has mastered the art of making his guitar careen...
...title track, when Martin briefly addresses life with the wife ("You and me are floating on a tidal wave") before falling into a series of high, choirboy ooh ooh oohs that speak more eloquently than anything else on the album. You can say almost anything over a power chord, and you can even say nothing. But nothing disguised as something just doesn't fly. --By Josh Tyrangiel
...poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko, now President of Ukraine (although the West sees him as a good guy). A leader who cements his command of the government after he lies about a military threat and makes a war? I can't quite place it, but that also strikes a familiar chord...
Certain topics seem to strike a chord with Harvard students—human rights, politics, and female orgasms...