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...turns in another of his hauntingly cycling scores, delving into the sense of intrigue evoked by the string instruments. Roger Deakins, Oscar-nominated for his golden-hued cinematography on O Brother, turns in similarly stellar monochromatic work here; every shot is crisp and pristine, bursting with an expressively noir-ish atmosphere...
...album of memories, of old genres and antique grooves. The songs have a sense of history and a sense of discovery; hearing them is like finding a stack of vintage records in an old uncle's attic. The opening track, Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum, churns to a boogie-woogie-ish beat; the radiant Moonlight evokes Tin Pan Alley crooning and Western swing; and on the song High Water, Dylan pays tribute to blues pioneer Charley Patton. "All my songs, the styles I work in, were all developed before I was born," says Dylan. "When I came into the world, that...
...Doubtless there will be some speedy readers who won't mind the concept of renting a book for ten hours. For others, the idea of a book that can deliberately make itself unreadable at a given moment - no matter the reason - will have a disturbing, Farenheit 451-ish quality to it. Luckily, there's still an invention that will let you read the same book at no charge for two or three weeks, during which time you can lend it to as many friends and copy down as many passages as you wish: the public library. But how long such...
...After all, this is America we're talking about - we raise our children to shop. And if Mr. And Mrs. Smith use that $600 to do something ant-ish like put it in the bank, invest it, or pay off credit card bills (generally a better deal than investing anyway), won't the money find its way out eventually? Admit it - savings is fleeting, investments make somebody else feel rich enough to spend, and credit card bills that go down by $600 tend to go back up by $800 before long. We're all grasshoppers at heart - that...
...belong to Bonds. Early in his career, when he was a stolen-base threat and the only player in history to be named Most Valuable Player three out of four seasons, Bonds was built like a track star. Today he's clearly bigger, listed at a defensive back-ish 230 lbs., but he insists, "I have trained the same way for the last 11 years... You can't really explain it. I come around and touch home plate and I'm in the dugout, and I'm like, 'What the hell did I just...