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Long, unlike most Americans, I am happy to say, fails to grasp the concept that when a group of people hijack four airlines and crash them into major U.S. landmarks, they have lost the privilege of reasoning through their grievances, and deserve not our empathy, but our wrath. The Twin Towers, above all else, stood as a symbol of rationality and human achievement, and it is this rationality that the suicide bombers of Sept. 11 sought to destroy...
...open up their record collection to thousands of listeners a day, and sites like indiePOPradio.com that link users to stations geared toward particular interests, the Web holds out the promise of delivering radio from the hands of "such a lot of fools" (or profit-oriented entrepreneurs) into the grasp of the People...
...minutes of multicolored, multitextured gloopy stuff running from her eyes into her nostrils and back out her eyes. Bjork maintains, paradoxically, that she has to create videos that odd to make her music more accessible. "If I do a song, people have to listen to it 10 times to grasp it; but if they have an image to go along with it, they only have to listen to it a couple of times," she says. Her commitment to art extends to putting together a new $35 coffee-table book, Bjork, consisting mostly of pictures of her. It took the publisher...
...come—forced me to the car at intermission, making the second show in my life, but also the second this summer, that I simply couldn’t endure past intermission. Mixing too many dramatic and visual styles, as well as lacking a firm grasp of the material, this Lear came quite close to the textbook definition of bad Shakespeare...
...imperfections that plague their lives. Before we get to Christmas, however, Franzen is busy sketching out the big picture details of American life through the Lamberts’ various misadventures. If a life is lived in the details, then Franzen’s grasp of the Lamberts’ inner and superficial lives is fabulous. He gives us striking and pitch-perfect accounts of the crises and triumphs and weird lines of internal reasoning exhibited by his characters, who are involved in episodes such as a biotech IPO, a fraudulent investment scheme in a Baltic nation, an affair with both...