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...ARTS & SOCIETY Cinema: Hooray for Bollywood Books: Fragrant Harbour
...optimistic and cheerful. I’m painfully naïve (and still am a little bit). On Jan. 20, exhilarated to be done with final exams and a very rough first semester, I write: “I’m done! I’m finally done! Hooray!” A week later comes a friendly e-mail from a friend I had worked with at camp the summer before. I never wrote back, and a few months later she was hit by a car and died...
...FOOTBALL FANS. The XFL's spectacular failure was a victory for authentic sports and a warning to the WWF and NBC, its founding partners, that even bloodsport fans have standards. They promised us smashmouth football; we got trashmouth football narrated by Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura and played by buffoons. Hooray for football fans who tackled this one for a loss...
...divide. Nothing resembles a narrative, and characters underpin most of the songs. A fairly random sampling, from “Our Weekend Starts on Wednesday” yields: “Out of the darkness / Sings a signal to our sleep / APB for every dream / Dead within the week / Hooray.” It is about as obscure (and profound) as “Hit me baby one more time.” “Eleven to Your Seven” is the closest Mercedes come to a genuine pop song with a decent hook, though the lyrics...
...Hooray for Antipodean rock: Sure, it may have all been done before, but these days few can keep the rock idiom alive without sounding dated. And now here’s a charm-filled album by the former frontman of New Zealand band The Verlaines, Graeme Downes. A lecturer in a rock degree program (can you imagine?: Speaking tonight, we have Professor Axl Rose, lecturing on “Teased Hair and Split Ends in Detroit Rock of the mid-1980’s: Hair today, Gone tomorrow?”), this is rock done just right, as the minute...