Word: fluffs
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...teen comedy from our friends at MTV Pictures. The film stars Colin Hanks (yes, that Hanks) as Shaun Brumder, a high school senior who desperately wants to attend Stanford University, only to have his dreams crushed by a guidance counselor’s ineptitude. Sound like typical teen fluff to you? It certainly did to me. But then again, it’s almost never a good idea to judge a movie by its premise—especially if you know nothing else going in. Naturally, I never follow my own advice, so I went in expecting crap...
...welcome. Simple and repetitive, the tune becomes tiring before the first minute is up. Far from being invincible, the track is riddled with flaws; the music is trite and jejune, while the vocals sound uncharacteristically thin and weak. “Break of Dawn” is harmless fluff, a love song that makes up for what it lacks in chutzpah with a tender sweetness. “Heaven Can Wait” possesses more interesting and touching lyrics, yet fails to capture its audience with its slow pace...
...Lark,” then offered Liszt’s “Rigoletto” paraphrase of Verdi. Both demonstrated the utmost in fluidity and lyricism—in Kissin’s hands, the hideously difficult becomes the sublimely simple, even if the material is third-rate fluff. Scriabin’s D-sharp minor Étude (Op. 8, #12) was next (a nod to Horowitz), followed by an arrangement of waltzes from Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus—again, breathtakingly impressive. Still, I can’t help but wonder how much more enjoyable...
With 0.54 ounces of belly button fuzz to his name, Australian Graham Barker made it into the 2002 edition of the Guiness Book of World Records, published last week. He has collected his bodily fluff every day since...
...Though the industries that will implement the energy policy are never mentioned, the recommendations that are neither redundant nor fluff generally sound their factories' morning whistle (The only sector mentioned is the auto industry, which, the report states, should not be "negatively impacted" by any new Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. A worthy sentiment, but "negatively impacted" itself looms as fuel for later debate...