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...final five tracks of the album, with the exception of the perverse, electronic faux-beat-poetic “Pink Cellphone,” underscore the Deftones’ overall difficulty with this album. While the group has mined the intersection of screaming and art with some success for years, they do so here incoherently. In trying to be too broad, they lose sight of what made them noteworthy in the first place: consistently good songs...
...starters, Streisand’s banter with her faux Bush dragged on a little too long in the evening’s show. A “Dubya double” has the potential to be humorous but it was decidedly unfunny for her crowd to have this long partisan commercial foisted upon them between songs. People came to the show to hear Streisand sing (already a boring proposition) not to hear the current president belittled (even more...
...where his work ethic spoke volumes. In the summers, Smith, a self-described "hick" who turns words like curfew into care-few, picked berries, and tossed 30-lb. bales of hay onto trucks. "I can smell it now," he says, perking up in his Lake Forest, Ill., office, loading faux hay over his shoulder. "We didn't know about lifting weights. Haaaay! That's what you got." The name Lovie he got from his great-aunt Lavana, no doubt requiring him to become a very tolerant man. His most stirring performance took place in 1988, when his son Matthew, then...
Harvard students who care whether their faux-worn-in blazers have Italian, British, or American-cut shoulders are at the forefront of a trend: Dressing like a character in an Evelyn Waugh novel, a perennial Harvard pastime, is even more popular than ever here in Cambridge. Two august clothing vendors in Harvard Square—J. Press and The Andover Shop—have been supplying finals club members past and present with houndstooth and herringbone for decades. Denis E. Black, manager of J. Press, has worked in the Square for over thirty years and introduced generations of clueless freshmen...
...fail / Find your Grail / Find your Grail / Find your Grail") a joke on the banality of such songs? Or is it the real thing, a straightforwardly banal inspirational? Which is not to say that a song can't also be what it makes fun of - that a faux-inspirational song can't be inspirational and incorrigibly, addictively, sing-alongable. Remember that "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" became the anthem for English football clubs. That's the lovely thing about parody: nothing is so silly that someone won't take it seriously...