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...dream is alive. "Is it possible to fall in love with a computer?" asks Jeff Goldblum in a new TV ad Jobs screened last week for the adoring legions at MacWorld. Then, as a tangerine iBook dances and twirls onscreen, Goldblum answers his own question with an erotic, breathy groan...
...power; Eminem is a clever, albeit socially irresponsible, lyricist; and the Insane Clown Posse is just plain malicious and dumb. But all three acts do share some core attributes: they make jagged, angry music, full of violent imagery and snide, snotty humor; and they perform songs that grind and groan like auto plants closing down...
...waiting to see what magic Seth could possibly spin next. Crammed with intriguing detail about the world of classical music, it is the story of Michael, a violinist in a string quartet, who is reunited with his long-lost love, Julia. But the writing is more than a little groan inducing: "She kisses me. I hold her in that soundless room, far from daylight and the traffic of Bayswater and all the webs of the world. She holds me as if she could never bear to let me desert her again." Excuse me? In addition to doing fastidious research among...
Last November during Election day, you could almost hear the collective groan emanating from Washington. In one of the most quiet--yet closely watched--races from around the country, Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wisc.), who gave a speech at the ARCO Forum last night, defeated Republican Mark Neumann by a hair, 51 to 49 percent...
Because of the 10 applicants who'd be unfairly denied admission, I'd have to say. I would, of course, feel square saying it. Pat would groan, and just to let him know that I was not completely lacking in the imagination to appreciate an inspired idea, I'd tell him how much I had always admired that scheme for turning his boyhood home into a national shrine...