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...whither ever increasing faith / we decided to go ahead and just ignore them…so instead we went ahead / to fabricate a catalog / of unstable elements, and modicums / and particles / with non-zero total strangeness / for brief moments which amount / to nothing more than tiny fragments of a finger snap...

Author: By Jim Fingal, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NEW MUSIC: Lost and Safe | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...synthetic whole. The cut-and-pasted audio material creates a surreal sort of ‘exquisite corpse’ effect, not so much relating an explicit story as exposing an unconscious mood or psychic backdrop. In extreme cases, their own lyrical contribution is literally reduced to mere finger-snapping, as in “it never changes to stop...

Author: By Jim Fingal, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NEW MUSIC: Lost and Safe | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...SCREWED UP? The finger pointed directly at U.S. spy agencies: prewar knowledge of Saddam's WMD was "dead wrong." Most of the material it was based on was "either worthless or misleading." Important for the President, the report states that his Administration didn't pressure intelligence analysts to support its conclusions about Iraq. The panel passed on the issue of whether senior officials hyped the bad info to justify the invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Holds Barred | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

...SCREWED UP? The finger pointed directly at U.S. spy agencies: prewar knowledge of Saddam's WMD was "dead wrong." Most of the material it was based on was "either worthless or misleading." Important for the President, the report states that his Administration didn't pressure intelligence analysts to support its conclusions about Iraq. The panel passed on the issue of whether senior officials hyped the bad info to justify the invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Read: The WMD Intel Report | 4/2/2005 | See Source »

...felt when Basquiat's bright, hectic canvases started appearing. In Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump, an '82 picture in the Brooklyn show, he applied broad washes of pigment in a way that suggests a cross between Willem de Kooning's surfs of color and any kid's finger paintings. The boy is then built up out of a host of ragged gestures. Basquiat may not have been trained in academic drawing, but at least in his first years, he could mark a canvas in interesting ways. And in a typical Basquiat, nothing was minimal. Everything was cluttered, unbuckled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Does '80s Art Look Now? | 3/28/2005 | See Source »

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