Word: classics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GENTLEMEN: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System," you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50' of being rather one of Us--the Bad Guys--than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
...film never sits still-but it never really goes anywhere, either. For all of its stylistic variety and experimentation--the Peter Greenaway-esque Hell sets, jarring time shifts, jump cuts and film loops--the film leaves the viewer with a feeling of emptiness. It touches upon all of the classic Allen themes, but in its hurry to make an all-emcompassing (and, in the end, annoyingly elliptical) statement about the artist's relationship to his work, fails to develop any of these to the fruition reached in Allen's earlier works. None of the characters (except Block, who turns...
People who say that techno music is overly simple should go out and buy a classic rock songbook and you realize that almost every classic rock song has maybe four chords. People have been dismissing wonderful music by saying it's simple forever. Most people thought Billie Holiday [was] terribly simple and not worth listening to. Early rock and roll people said was too simple and wasn't music; early hip-hop same thing...
...live bass player, a la Squarepusher. The shirtless Mr. Hall himself bounced all over the stage, becoming an occasional third drummer and pounding on keyboards from time to time. "Ah Ah" and "Bring Back My Happiness" were played for speed, a fact appreciated by the crowds. The rave classic "Move," stretched to eight minutes, was far too short. Euphoria was the order of the night as Moby repeatedly plunged into the writhing crowd...
...Green's depth (18 juniors and seniors on its roster), its new coach (former Brown coach Bob Gaudet) nor its recent two-game winning streak, which included an impressive, 4-1 championship victory over Providence in the Sheraton/US Airways Holiday Hockey Classic...