Word: expectancies
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Many viewers speculated as to what sort of backlash “Saturday Night Live” and NBC could expect from the Federal Communications Commission. It was, after all, the FCC that levied a fine of $325,000 at the sight of Janet Jackson’s nipple during the 2004 Superbowl, though—who knows?—they might have been willing to knock down the price for the pair. It turns out, though, that in the so-called “safe harbor” period, from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., television stations...
Lightning Bolt recorded the bulk of their eponymous debut in a studio, but before the album’s release decided to scrap the meticulously-recorded studio cuts in favor of live 4-track recordings. The result was what one would expect when condensing a room full of pummeling drums and gut-wrenching bass amplifiers down to anemic laptop speakers, tinny iPod headphones, or muddy home stereos: while it reminded a lucky few of that crazy show they saw in a dirty Providence loft, to the rest of us it sounded underpowered and underwhelming. Subsequent releases improved the recording quality...
...densely layered effects a bit of breathing room, revealing a textural intricacy that is lost in live performance. On “The Sublime Freak”, Gibson’s feedback-soaked bass rattles the hi-hat before diving into a riff as catchy as you can expect from the borderline noise that is Lightning Bolt. Multiple effects chains are audible above Chippendale’s machine gun drumming, and the latter half of the track features multi-tracking that would have been unthinkable in the band’s early days. The result is a thick tangle...
...study calls for improved communication with patients and family members so they understand what to expect in the final stages [of dementia] to make decisions of care with their patients,” Mitchell said...
...keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results, that’s called insanity,” said Brian “Ari” Cole, a Kennedy School alumnus. “We gotta change our methods! We have...