Word: freaked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wide screen quickly became the center of attention, and the music its soundtrack. It conveyed something that’s impossible to discern in Takemura’s albums. If Calix’s glitch symphonies were ones and zeros come alive, Takemura’s playful sonic freak-outs were the machines themselves speaking. Blocky polygon men sang along with the disembodied voices; kids frolicked with pixelated woodland creatures during musical lulls. Seemingly senseless static became a conversation between two clay figurines...
...recent months, my ever-faithful roommates have noticed something a bit fanatic in my feelings towards the military. “You are a psychotic Republican freak, announced Natasha P. Rosow ’02 (an überhip L.A. bohemian liberal feminist destined for Hollywood glory) after my particularly vehement defense of Mr. Rumsfeld. Squash star-cum-photographer Carlin E. Wing ’02, on the other hand, sends forth e-mails rife with anti-establishment sentiment, hoping beyond hope that she can convert me to a sense of normalcy. At my moments of severe military fervor, however...
...fortune: Def Jam's top artist, rapper Jay-Z--the multimillion-selling kingpin of the genre--and Jive's top R.-and-B. singer, R. Kelly--whose schizoid canon runs between gospel-infused hits like I Believe I Can Fly and bedroom numbers on the order of Like a Freak--were collaborating on an album. Synergy isn't a science, but given the platinum pedigrees of both artists, the album, The Best of Both Worlds, could plausibly have become the first hip-hop record to sell 1 million copies in its first week of release...
...name appears on baseball cards, box scores and major league scoreboards, but this Javy Lopez is not a professional baseball player. If it wasn’t for a freak accident three years ago, though, he could have been...
...realize it was a freak accident,” Lopez said. “If I’m afraid of the ball, I will never be able to hit. I will duck out of the way instead of stepping into...