Word: heard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result is an album that feels exceedingly...comfortable. There is no "first listening" of Brand New, because chances are that somewhere, sometime, you've heard most of it before. But isn't that true for most music these days? What makes Brand New such buoyant, brassy fun is that Salt 'N' Pepa are savvy enough to market their own dues-paying and past success as an uptown version of street cred: call it Workhorse Chic...
...America, self-published manuscripts and their "controversial" results are often overdramatized in advertising; the novel itself, to an American who has ostensibly seen and heard everything, seldom can live up to the adjectives hyping its publication...
...words) all of which depict stereotypes of Asian men and women, especially in their sexual interactions. The clips, for instance, all feature scenes in which white men and Asian women are embracing. Meanwhile, questions roll across the bottom of the screen: "Do they really have small penises?"; "Have you heard the term 'asiaphile'...how about 'rice queen'...[or] 'pagoda worshiper?"; and "Why does People Magazine list 50 beautiful people with three Asian women and no Asian men?" Overlaid on the video itself is a sequence of readings from personal ads for Asian women, dating services bolstering white male-Asian female...
There, in fact, lies a fault with Fulbeck's film as a whole: too often important ideas are lost as the viewer frantically tries to make sense of the disorder of processing three different types of information all at once. Most annoyingly, two voices can almost always be heard in the soundtrack to the video, reciting different speeches simultaneously, and a great deal of the effect of either speech dissipates in this technique...
Bones on section reading: "I ask myself 'does it matter if I don't do this?' No. Why would you read something if you just heard...