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Listening to music in an unfamiliar tongue can be more thrilling than listening to a song whose lyrics are instantly intelligible. Because if you can connect with another person beyond lyrics, beyond language, then you have engaged in a kind of telepathy. You have managed to escape the mundane realm of ordinary communication and entered a place where souls communicate directly. It's cooler than instant messaging. Cherif Mbaw, 33, is a Senegalese singer-guitarist living in Paris; the songs on his brilliant CD Kham Kham are in his native Wolof. But when Mbaw, with his beatific tenor, soars into...
...trappings of 1997's Pop for straight-on, earthy, lusty rock 'n' roll. "Our last albums were in a way deconstructing what a band was about," explains drummer Larry Mullen. "It's great to be playing as a real band again." U2 is also excited about being able to connect with an audience in an intimate way again. "People have been coming to U2 shows for 20 years now. It's almost like the Deadheads at this stage," explains bassist Adam Clayton. "People realize that it's about them as well...
...Pynchon. But another reason that people are paying so much attention to Franzen’s newest novel is the 1996 Harper’s piece in which he lamented the state of American fiction and argued that the way to save the American novel from irrelevancy was to connect “the personal and the social,” to write about the lives of individual characters while also saying something compelling and honest about their (and our) larger world...
Here's the weird thing about connections: the impulse to make them is so strong, so fundamentally human, that we connect with those who cannot make connections for themselves. We will the connectedness of particles. Stephen Sondheim seemed inspired by this idea in Sunday in the Park with George, as "piece by piece" he showed Seurat putting the contributing parts of a painting--bustles, parasols, dogs--together...
With stadiums having maxed out revenues from luxury boxes and club seats, NBBJ has turned to sponsors to generate more dollars for team owners. "We're always looking for ways to connect with sponsors over and above just selling a sign," Meis says. At the Staples Center in Los Angeles, NBBJ created exhibition space for Toyota and let United Airlines decorate the club-seat corridors. For the Milwaukee Brewers, NBBJ pitched Miller Brewing Co. the idea of incorporating its logo on a clock tower. "That becomes their blimp shot," he says...