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...MORNING JACKET Z For two albums, the most noteworthy thing about My Morning Jacket was its air of cultivated scruffiness; its members looked like Lynyrd Skynyrd Muppet Babies--and played like them. Here they finally shake off their youthful jam-band fascination and write some songs. From the ecstatic atmospherics of Wordless Chorus to the crackling What a Wonderful Man, singer Jim James is expansive without being lazy. If they still pack in an odd, trippy tune about kittens on fire (Into the Woods), it's perhaps because some jam-band habits are harder to break than others...
...Administration's NAFTA victory. I was en route to a taping of my show at CNN, and I was not wearing a ''cozy white warm-up outfit,'' as you said, but my usual on-air uniform: dress shirt, tie, suspenders, respectable dark dress trousers and my favorite baseball jacket, which celebrates Japan's Nippon Ham Fighters team. That didn't seem to bother anyone; President Clinton even asked where he could get a jacket like mine. I own no white warm-up outfits, cozy or otherwise. I always dress nice...
Good to hear them again-the marine drill sergeants' obscene arias of disgust and contempt (see also Full Metal Jacket and Heartbreak Ridge) as they begin the process of stripping young American males of their individuality, any tendency they might have to think for themselves or harbor the odd, rebellious thought. These early passages in every modern combat movie are designed to induce a state of shock and awe in its viewers, soften us up for the horrors to come. We laugh, we cringe, we begin looking forward to the transformation of these innocents into lean, mean killing machines...
Maggie Orth is tired of high-tech gadgets encased in hard, shiny plastic. Instead, she weaves metals into soft fabrics to create everything from a jacket that plays music to a cocktail dress that lights up like a firefly. "Injection-molded plastic is not my cup of tea," says Orth, whose Seattle firm International Fashion Machines just released a line of fuzzy light switches--small cloth pompons that turn on or off with a squeeze, thanks to conductive fibers woven into them...
Trained as a painter, Orth got her Ph.D. at M.I.T.'s Media Lab, where she had an epiphany: "I thought, Wouldn't it be cool if you could make clothes that compute? There was something magical about that," she says. That led Orth to a jean jacket with a built-in synthesizer and a keypad embroidered on the lapel. Pressing different places on the jacket changes the electrical charge on the metal fibers and creates sounds...