Word: cutters
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...been steamrolled over by a synthetic, processed sound. And, believe me, this is pop with two capital Ps, and a capital O thrown in for good measure. In Blue is to music what Last Action Hero was to cinema: the apotheosis of a certain kind of mindless cookie-cutter workmanship, like Warhol without the ironic distance. The only track on the album that doesn't just shriek with brain-bursting insignificance is the instrumental last track, "Rebel Heart." The fiddle from previous Corr albums is back, albeit surrounded by the same MIDI-file accompaniment that infests the rest of this...
...funds in the account, however, are handled by the plan, not you. Some parents may eschew this cookie-cutter approach to investing. "The downside is, once the money is in the option you choose, it stays there," says Joseph Hurley, a C.P.A. in Pittsford, N.Y., and author of The Best Way to Save for College. Many plans use an age-allocation formula, investing more conservatively as a child gets older. But now that financial-services companies are helping manage these plans, the offerings can be much broader, Hurley says...
...editors," Martel says. "He was very respected within Gannett. I'd be hard-put to say that Giles did [what he did] because of his own policies, but you didn't see him raising a lot of red flags or stamping his feet when Gannett was imposing these cookie cutter approaches to journalism...
Which, of course, is standard fare for the cookie-cutter action movies Hollywood cranks out by the dozen. But I had hoped that a director as noted as John Singleton and an actor with Jackson's talent would produce something more challenging than a cinematic gangsta-rap song. The original Shaft--one of the first black movie heroes to talk back to the Man and get away with it--meant something special to blacks like me who came of age during the '70s. We could use another hero like that now. Instead we got the shaft...