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...This album is full of raggediness." Contributing to the raggediness are song titles like Guero, E-Pro and Brazilica, as well as a guest appearance by Jack White of the White Stripes. Beck appeared in a White Stripes video last year, and White asked if he could return the favor by playing bass on Beck's record--odd considering that the White Stripes are the world's most famous bass-averse band. But then, everyone defies expectations in his own way. --By Josh Tyrangiel
...McDermott doesn’t need to light up the Bison defense, but he will need to engineer three or four scoring drives. Those drives better end in touchdowns, because the Quakers just benched starting kicker Evan Nolan, who missed four straight field goals including one against Dartmouth, in favor of defensive back/kicker Bryan Arguello, who also missed a field goal against the Big Green...
...peaceful world and we’re told that it’s impossible, but it’s a failure of our imagination,” Loeb said. As an illustration, he pointed out that many radical evangelical groups, although conservative on most political issues, are in favor of universal healthcare coverage...
Mangano says people also confuse the art of mime with pantomime, which consists of smaller communicative gestures using only the face and hands. Mangano is in favor of possibly changing the term from “mime” to “gestural theater” or “physical theater” in order to escape popular clichés of what mime is, even though those terms are less accurate descriptions of what these performers do onstage...
...simply regard that piece as a transparent vehicle for conventional meaning. The ultimate problem with formalism, however, was that its emphasis on formal qualities did not amount to genuinely granting a work of art autonomy when discussing meaning. True, formalist critics had thrown out social conventions of meaning in favor of formal analysis, but they then proceeded to use their discussion of form as a platform for the construction of abstract interpretations. Consider what happened with one of the classic formalist darlings, the painter Jackson Pollock. Formalist critics raved about his explosively gestural drips and splashes, but only so that...