Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recording Trigonometry, his second album, under the pseudonym Mr. No-No, one wonders where the Saucee Nomad has had time to come up with the tight lyrical flow and musicality a worthy hip-hop album necessitates. The short answer: He didn't. The Oaktown native's third effort is flat and largely uninspired, quite the disappointment after his much lauded freestyle battle with Casual...
Jerry and Mary first swapped in 1982, exchanging their Upper West Side Manhattan apartment for a five-room Paris flat in the 17th arrondisement, just a short hop from L'Etoile. Not only did they get the charming, high-ceilinged apartment furnished with 18th century antiques; they also got Rene, the owner, a charming and sociable French engineer, who met them for drinks at John F. Kennedy Airport. They have kept in touch since, through notes and Christmas cards, visits to each other and at least seven stays at Rene's, including three quid pro quo exchanges. Sometimes Jerry...
...passive, and I don't ever want to be. Nothing truly real or really true is ever flat, especially with regard to art. And music is, indisputably, an art. The tunes we love shouldn't be an unnoticed backdrop to whatever we decide to engage ourselves with noticing. I far prefer songs with meanings to which I can relate, so that when I sing along I am uttering words and thoughts and feelings which have a point relevant to my life. Points--not only in math--lead to lines and planes which define dimensions. And in the abstract reality which...
...Upstaging Pacino is Christopher Plummer as Mike Wallace; he's cocky as hell, he's arrogant, he's sometimes petulant, but he's got all the good lines and uses them well. A scenery-chewing performance could have done fine, but Plummer develops Wallace into something other than a flat parody; he makes a dynamic, human journey in minimal screen time and turns in an uncharacteristically strong supporting performance...
...McCain has yet to announce whether he'll enter the debate. He hasn't done any campaigning in Iowa and said he would only engage in one debate there, in January. The December appearance could provide Bush the opportunity to give the people what they want and catch McCain flat-footed. But he'll also have to do something he wanted to avoid - square off with the party's right-hugging contingent, represented by candidates Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes, who could force Bush to defend himself to conservatives, possibly at the expense of some centrist swing votes. But then...