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...scary or mildly amusing. Throw weapons into that mix and you’ve either got a deranged Barney episode or The New Pornographers’ “Mutiny, I Promise You” video. This is your typical indie pop outfit (think Tilly and the Wall) video: hyper-chromatic garb and lighting, bouncy vocals, DIY sets and props, and relentless, exaggerated theatricality. The band members begin in an overcrowded cardboard box doing “cool” things like reading Borges and taking Polaroid shots of each other. A girl with two long braids (you?...
...from the video set to show five seated, disinterested people. Who are these new faces? Henchmen? Hostages? No, that’s crazy. I’m getting worked up about nothing. Maybe I’m reading too much into this. Maybe Deerhoof is just a group of hyper, innovative rockers who write songs about Bambi and pandas. I should stop freaking out about this stuff. Wait, why is the guitarist making sure the camera records his hammer-ons? It’s probably a code! Play it again...
...community, pushing the university to adopt a nondiscrimination policy that protected people on the basis of sexual orientation. This was critical to one of the central goals of Lambda—to raise the profile of out queer students at the law school and dismantle the homophobic and hyper-masculine culture of a law school that first graduated women...
...cruel to suggest that a nonfiction account of the atrocities of war is a page-turner? Very well: this is a page turner, and one of the most astounding books yet written about the war in Iraq. The magic of The Forever War is the dispassionate yet hyper-involving manner in which Filkins offers scores of mini-narratives - stories about Iraqi civilians, insurgents and politicians, American grunts and generals alike - without judgment. Filkins doesn't lecture, he just reports, in great and perfect detail. It's possibly the only true requirement for a good war story. Or any story...
This new reality is upending traditional campaign strategies not just for the organizations of Obama and McCain but also for down-ballot candidates and ballot-initiative efforts. And it has hyper-compressed the presidential race. No sooner had the nominees selected their running mates and introduced them to the nation than they began pivoting to present their closing arguments, as Obama almost appears to be doing in his new 2-min. economy ad. In years past, candidates stayed on alert for an "October surprise" that could alter the race at the last minute. But in the brave new world...