Word: exceptionality
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...movies and TV shows. A few years ago, Sony ATV, Buckley's publisher, put tracks from Grace on the compilation discs it uses to lure entertainment executives. Soon producers were forking over mid?five figures for Buckley's Hallelujah cover. Cohen murmured the original like a dirge, but except for a single overwrought breath before the music kicks in, Buckley treated the 7-min. song like a tiny capsule of humanity, using his voice to careen between glory and sadness, beauty and pain, mostly just by repeating the word hallelujah. It's not only Buckley's best song...
...Ukraine were to be welcomed into the E.U. "Ukraine's turned out to be Putin's worst failure," says one official in Moscow. If Putin fails to install Yanukovych and thus "loses" Ukraine, the official says, his domestic position will be undercut. "Putin will strike back," he says. "But except for encouraging eastern separatism, he does not have a lever to work." For now, Putin must wait like everyone else for the outcome of the election. The future will depend on how quickly and thoroughly Yushchenko can flush the toxins out of his system - and whether Ukraine's body politic...
...took the logical next step in his march toward world domination with the release of Crunk Juice, honing the method that brought you the year’s biggest hit, Usher’s “Yeah!.” Yes, everybody had a good year. Except Ashlee Simpson, Phil Spector and Michael Jackson...
...debate about council initiatives, principles or any real issues for that matter, the candidates presented their constituents with “vision,” “experience,” and “philosophy.” This is all well and good, of course, except when these things fail to vary among the different campaigns, leaving personality as the only differentiator. Though of course no one could reasonably expect a candidate to argue against, say, 24-hour library access or student input into the College’s Allston expansion, candidates made the unfortunate decision...
...calories. There are some other surface changes in the life of the world’s favorite singleton: she’s shacked up with the dreamy Darcy (Colin Firth) and is no longer, well, single. But the script is furnished with the same jokes from the first movie, except the second time the “watch Bridget fall flat on her face in a very short skirt” routine is less vaudeville and more ritual humiliation. The movie seems to perpetuate, rather than poke fun at, the ridiculous conventions of the Hollywood romantic comedy. There are some...