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While Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., was hailed as a war hero turned peacemaker by speaker after speaker, the Brothers preferred to dub themselves the “men of the epididymis.” To live up to the title, three of the four avant-garde jugglers donned spermatozoan headgear and sang of the miracles of conception while the last ersatz sibling lolled about the stage in the filmy garb of a gigantic ovum...
Considering this past weekend’s results, it might be fitting to dub the second-year members of the Harvard track teams “sophomore studs...
...live alone in a warehouse.) The fact is that most of this stuff comes from club and rave culture, where booming soundsystems are the norm. Below a certain volume threshold, it loses effect—thus meaning—completely. Leftfield drum & bass producer Equinox makes dub basslines so deep (below 30 Hz) they’re barely audible at high volume on standard speakers. They’re meant to literally shake your body, seize your insides. And studio wizards like Foul Play used to program breakbeats that were so rapid and microscopic they had the tactile effect...
...drama--rather than Mob stories, the show's popcorn hook--and lacked focus. None have the Edward Albee gut wallop of last season's climax, but they are more consistent and action heavy. A bunch of mobsters arrested in the '80s get paroled ("The Class of '04," the media dub them), including Tony Blundetto (Steve Buscemi), who went to jail for a heist Tony Soprano was supposed to be on. Determined to go straight, "Tony B." is driving a linen-delivery truck while working to become a licensed massage therapist. It sounds like comic relief...
...surely consolidated his power, all the while keeping his public approval ratings in the 70 percent range. After systematically banishing, locking up or otherwise neutralizing many of his most outspoken rivals—and taking over their TV stations—Putin has pulled Russia into what scholars now dub “managed democracy.” In this nice little arrangement, the Russian president and the party he supports submit to relatively free democratic elections, but use state control over procedure and the media to push for electoral success. Some of the dirty tricks they perpetrate would make...