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...Those searching for a more fluid definition might check out a hefty tome by University of Michigan professor Nadine Hubbs called The Queer Composition of America's Sound, which purports to find gay sensibilities in instrumental music. That's right, no words, even. Anthony Tommasini, classical music critic of the New York Times, was among those who were skeptical, asking "just how is a gay sensibility expressed in music? Especially purely instrumental...
...pretend that my votes are any kind of reliable predictor of who will or won't win. I don't even pretend that they're backed by any special knowledge or coherent reasoning - hey, I'm a theater critic, not an expert in sound design. Indeed, the dirty little secret is that voting for the Tonys is a dangerously haphazard affair. It's not a pretty picture, but here's a quick run-down of how I voted and why - listed in the (somewhat arbitrary) order they're given on the ballot, which you can see here (and is continued...
...father carries a flashlight and has been known to set napkins on fire trying to read the words on his menu," says Richard Foss, a California restaurant critic who has launched a service called Menu Repairmen. Foss cites Elizabethan fonts and old-German typefaces as egregious examples of hard-to-read styles used by pubs to signal authenticity...
Coldplay has already proved itself critic-proof, and whether it wants to be any bigger or not, the odds are that Viva la Vida will be one of the top sellers of 2008. Ubiquity will remain theirs. But having risked a bit, Coldplay has also gained. It's pretty tough to call the band insufferable. Imperfect, maybe...
...suicide bombing outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad, which killed six people, has caused a bout of soul-searching in the land of Kierkegaard and Hamlet. More than ever, Danes are asking what price their country can afford to pay for its increasingly entrenched reputation as a forthright critic of Islam...