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...year looking back, there were games where we threw the ball 40, 50, 60 times and ended up losing, and we thought that that offensive strategy wasn’t getting it done in terms of winning games,” Cowan says. “We made a conscious choice to get Rob the ball more often—we felt like he needed to get back in the game, and get more touches...
...spite of everything, people will hate Encore. Fairweather fans, I say, and not because it’s a bad album—but because Eminem is going through troubles more profound than any he’s ever faced before. Taken for all its awkwardness and self-conscious anxiety, Encore is the dirtied summary of an existential crisis—a tumultuous internal battle that Eminem will undoubtedly resolve on his next, most likely classic, and most likely final album. In the meantime, he shoots his entire audience with a pistol at the end of the record...
...bell-ringers and la-la-laaing singers (all of them friends, and all of them shockingly gorgeous) isn’t one of the most convincing displays of transcendence-by-banjo, just check out the congregation. At the Middle East club last Sunday, there was none of that self-conscious swaying-and-chanting stuff, but there was ample staring and a lot of smiling. The cynical, pierced ears of all the emo kids were melting...
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...took him 11 long years to finish, and when he was finally through, he wasted no time looking around for fresh territory. He likes to portray himself as a literary opportunist: in his 1989 manifesto "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast," he scolded American novelists for writing minimalist, self-conscious little books when there's so much rich, strange, documentary material out there. "They don't want to see the world," he has said, "they want to suck their thumbs." After A Man in Full, it occurred to Wolfe, who had a daughter at Duke, that the lives of college students...