Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whatever good that might be accomplished by giving large amounts of homework is undermined by the devastating toll it takes on students' attitudes toward learning. It causes resentment, distaste, guilt, fatigue, disinterest and apathy toward all things academic. I'm afraid the long-term effect on students' morale and joy of learning may do more harm than good. ROBERT W. FISHER Cleveland, Tenn...
...most massive tunes to hit the dancefloor, including the storming single "Cassius 99" with its shout-along layer of Donna Summer's "Love is Just a Breath Away" vocals. There's an edgy feeling caused by the precise pruning of the synths and vocal samples midway, and this collage effect both reinvigorates old samples (Gwen McCrae's voice on "Feeling for You") and draws you into new songs ("La Mouche"). It's not all uptempo, though. Cassius's clean, even sparse, beats shift into low gear occasionally in tunes like "Nulife". No pre-millennial tension in 1999: the French have...
...included demo version of VJamm, Coldcut's soon-to-be-released audio/video sequencing program. Coldcut have always been big pioneers of video use, and the intuitive and stunningly addictive VJamm lets you chop up video clips from the album's songs and scratch up the sound-in effect, remixing video samples...
Peeling away the layers of mediahype, we come to the core of Valparaiso: a story about a man who, having a meaningless life with a largely negative impact on those around him turns to the media in an attempt at salvation. His wife, not strong enough to effect change for herself, jumps on board. Michael Majeski uses the media just as much as the media uses...
...wolfexplain to the sheep that he is about to devourthat, "You have no idea how silly it is to be abad wolf. Were it not for Aesop, we would sit onour hind legs and gaze at the sunset. I like to dothis very much." After this irony, Herbertcompounds the effect with a ladder which we allought to climb and then kick out from beneath us:"Don't follow the wolf, dear children. Don'tsacrifice yourselves to the moral...