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...pink; Annie Shawn was on it and kickers included “Tis the Season for Steamy Sex” and “10 Hot Harvard Men.” Freeze was a girls’ magazine in the tradition of YM and Seventeen, a frivolous book of fluff that was not so much amateurish as exuberant and joyously faithful to its genre. “Sometimes, we all need to relax,” Sebastian wrote in her inaugural editor’s note, “Yeah, George Orwell has his uses—but so does...
...with his haircuts, 29,000-sq.-ft. house and lucrative hedge-fund employment--walks the populist walk that he talks. For now, though, let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say, furthermore, that it's a very good sign that Edwards has responded to the haircut fluff with self-deprecating humor rather than defensiveness or abject apologies...
...similar to Bloc Party’s “She’s Hearing Voices.” The song seems to drag along for four minutes and eighteen seconds without ever reaching any level of interesting progression. That said, the Klaxons aren’t making bland fluff. The album definitely features a few gems. The earnest “It’s Not Over Yet” is both melodic and endearing. Meanwhile “Isle of Her” has the ability to put its listener in an enjoyable trance. The Klaxons exude...
...contemplation. There is just a little too much dead air in this production, a few too many pauses for characters to ponder, and the result feels more like an episode of “The Today Show” made of pretend news and cut with plenty of fluff. Stop and thihjgnk about the situation too much and the ending seems inevitable (I won’t spoil it, but you can probably guess). What should have been a profound conclusion becomes perfunctory and awkward...
...shock factor that it completely breezes over necessary information (like a mention of the Bloomsbury Group—the 20th century British intellectual bohemians for whom this book is named). “American Bloomsbury” feels wedged between genres, stuck in limbo between educated reading and fluff. Cheever’s desire to make the Transcendentalists seem cool to a younger generation would have worked, except that she underestimated the intelligence of her intended audience. Anyone who might be interested in learning about these influential American authors—“the mothers and fathers...