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...would be wholly appropriate, except maybe Halloween. The vocals are so heavily processed throughout that the singers never sound human—this is the sort of music ghosts might make, if they were Nordic and liked to dance as they haunted. That may not sound like a compliment, but believe me, it is.—Reviewer Eric L. Fritz can be reached at efritz@fas.harvard.edu. —Reviewer Nathaniel Naddaff-Hafrey can be reached at nhafrey@fas.harvard.edu
NICE OF POTUS TO NOTICE President Bush interrupts his Rose Garden press conference to bestow an unexpected compliment, telling NBC's David Gregory (who recently tussled with a microphone cord), "I must say, having gone through those gyrations, you're looking beautiful today, Dave." Oh, Mr. President, you big flirt...
...proving that he's just as contradictory as his countrymen. If he saw an elderly lady in need of help with her luggage, "I would split in two. While Beppe was being a Good Samaritan, Severgnini would observe the scene and offer congratulations. Beppe would then acknowledge his own compliment, and retire satisfied." But for all of its folksiness, the book can't escape a weightier encounter with history. Severgnini laments Italy's former playboy PM, Silvio Berlusconi, as the personification and perpetuator of the world's Italian stereotypes. "He had a lethal charm," he says. "My book explains...
...would you feel about being called the Martha Stewart of the tech blog world? Martha Stewart has come before. I would take it as a really big compliment - I can't bake or cook - but she is really successful...
...first name, Tom, but the blog is popular enough that even if it's technically private, it's really easy to deduce who someone is, and that has very interesting ramifications. I think the better comparison is reality television - people really want to be on it. It's a compliment in a weird, 21st century kind...