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While Erin Brockovich, the fact-based role of a single mom crusading against an energy company, is remarkably short on his stylistic touches ("It was an exercise in control for me," he says), Traffic is pure Soderbergh. Visually eclectic and alternately jarring and sentimental, it jump-cuts energetically among three...
There's no chance of mistaking this record for its decidedly happier counterpart, as the snarling guitar barrage of "When It All Goes Wrong Again" and the fervent punk of "All Fucked Up" stand in total contrast to the tinkling notes that opened Learning How To Smile. While that first...
The 20th century composers are Barber, Hindemith and Stravinsky. Barber's sonata and Hindemith's third sonata present formidable interpretive and technical challenges. Yet Wild--who learned Barber's thorny score, with its treacherous final fugue, for this recording (in his 80s!)--tears into them with a scintillating blend of...
All of the band's tried-and-true crowd-pleasers were there, in a collection of songs from throughout their nearly 20-year existence. "Particle Man," "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" and "Birdhouse in Your Soul" were all received with riotously rowdy exuberance, although the straightforwardness with which they were performed-the...
Students said they were pleased with the committee's eclectic list, which also includes both Clintons, Colin Powell, Chris Rock, Michael Jordan and Mr. T.