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...next referendum to set aside public money for new professional sports facilities and I will denounce any politician who caves in to the demands of greedy millionaire team owners. Nonetheless, Sunday’s game reflected the power that the NFL wields, for better or worse, to delight and entertain millions. For a few hours, I dropped my objections, pleased to be among them...
...more biting criticism against Linkin Park is that its songs lack artistry. Lesley Gore's It's My Party and Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit are sonically distinct and generations removed, but they both used irony (Cobain: "Here we are now/ entertain us") and metaphor (Gore: "It's my party and I'll cry if I want to") to appeal to alienated teens. By comparison, Linkin Park's three biggest hits--Crawling, One Step Closer and In the End--are strictly confessional yawps. Here, the band offers no apologies. "There's a lot of music out there that...
Memo to bin Laden: blame the Greeks! When the time comes to write the latest Afghan war's chronicles, one question will surely entertain historians. About 120,000 Soviet troops couldn't win victory there in 10 years, but a relative handful of Western soldiers took only a few weeks and a few Western casualties to wrest control of the country from the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. How come...
...LENO Bob Hope couldn't make it, so the man who wants to succeed him as America's Comic will entertain the troops during the holiday season. His wife Mavis has already been out front on Afghan women's rights...
...mold in music videos. In the mid-'90s, around the time that she was making her "One in a Million" video, it seemed as if the video form was dead. Finished. Stick a fork in it. The form seemed to lack the power to surprise or even to entertain. Musicians were making videos because they had to, because MTV was the new radio, because perhaps they had a couple of hours to kill after a gig on Saturday. Increasingly, at that time, videos were a thing to ridicule and even MTV itself was in on the mocking. MTV's since...