Word: dronings
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...movie takes its time reaching warp speed. The Zion debates drone on, and much of the acting and dialogue is stilted, perfunctory, at a level somewhere between a Star Trek TV episode and a Star Trek convention. But the ass kicking starts early, when Morpheus and Trinity have a cool fight with the Merovingian's goons. Meanwhile, Neo is being dogged by a "human" whose voice sounds ... strangely ... familiar. Our hero's lids are seared shut, and through the hot coals of his X-ray eyes, he sees Smith, grimacing triumphantly. It's one of the epiphanies of the movie...
...album’s immediate highlight and cheapest thrill is the lead single, the throbbing “Still In Love Song,” where distorted vocals (strongly reminiscent of The Stills’ current tour partners, Echo and the Bunnymen) drone over a jaunty bass line. At their worst, as on the nearly self-parodying “Animals & Insects,” the band suffer from monotony—without memorable hooks, the songs are unspectacular, and the throbbing, annoyingly persistent bass longs for a change of pace. As another entry in a growing aesthetic of modern...
Schwarzenegger represents a cultural politics that is missing in America: culturally liberal on issues like sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, fiscally conservative on taxes and spending, and hawkish on foreign policy. He is neither the interest-group drone of Democratic establishment nor the dour scold of the Republican base. He's the kind of guy who watches the same movies we do, who's both larger than life yet in touch with the cultural air we all breathe. He's an immigrant who doesn't alienate any region of the country, and a conservative who, one suspects...
...sleep to the drone of Bettina Chuo broadcasting the market data as the Asian markets open, one by one. I wake up to the unnecessarily chipper voice of Maria Bartiromo on Squawk Box before the open of the U.S. markets. And I know the voice, role and habits of every anchor in between. Sometimes I think I’ve fooled myself into believing that these telecasters are my friends, that they care whether or not I’m watching and wonder where I’ve gone when class or practice comes between me and the cool, bluish...
...would suggest to Kavulla that he visit Harvard’s own president, Lawrence H. Summers, MIT Class of 1975, and ask him whether he considers himself an “academic drone...