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...What the hell is that?'" That might also describe a typical Homicide fan's reaction to UPN mates like WWF Smackdown!, but entertainment president Tom Nunan says the show is a good match for UPN: "We do things a little differently, and that is Barry and Tom's hallmark...
...turmoil. But recent TV history, from upn's The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer to Fox's Simpsons rip-off Family Guy, is instead littered with idiotic series under idiotic attacks from would-be censors. Thus the job of pushing society's buttons and fomenting public discussion--once a hallmark of "quality TV"--has largely been taken over by TV's most mediocre shows...
McCain often speaks of prudence (for instance, when he talks about social security and taxes), but the hallmark of his "New Patriotic Challenge" is not so much prudence as heroism--the willingness to sacrifice, to suffer pain, even to die, for a worthy cause. Heroism is most closely associated with war, and references to war run throughout McCain's rhetoric--not only with regard to himself and "The Greatest Generation," but to faith, party politics and most everything else...
Emotional directness is the hallmark of the New Tonalism. "Musically, I say what I mean and mean what I say," explains Moravec. "The irony in my music is not glibly postmodern but rather the essence of making audible the human experience of ambiguity." Though Liebermann employs all the tools of the up-to-the-second composer--he even has a website, www.lowellliebermann.com--he too is quick to spurn the cheap irony of such trendy postmodernists as Britain's Thomas Ades (Powder Her Face). "We live in a sarcastic age," Liebermann says with a shrug. "A lot of intellectuals are uncomfortable...
Penn's music, on the other hand, has retained the mix of Beatles-esque pop catchiness and the lyrical legerdemain worthy of Dylan that has been a hallmark of his music since his first album in 1989. From the verbal barrage of "Brave New World" to the pensive ramblings of "Bunker Hill," Penn challenged the audience not to hum along to the witty songs...