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...problem is that Fortress follows that haymaker with another and another, until you realize Maria is adept at just one kind of punch. A few of these two-to-three-minute wraths ("Louie" and "I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked") are tuneful enough to stick with you, but they don't do much emotionally, and they all end up feeling numbingly similar, like fury masquerading as fun. As the album chugs on, it becomes clear that Maria hasn't quite figured out what she'd like to say to the world--"I know I'm always...
...Harvey's standards, A Woman a Man Walked By is kind of a lark. You can tell because she let frequent collaborator John Parish write the music (to her lyrics) and play all the instruments; when she's serious, Harvey handles everything save the shrink-wrap. Still, it's an excellent version of an underrated career in miniature...
...Optimalist" Most people would define optimism as being eternally hopeful, endlessly happy, with a glass that's perpetually half full. But that's exactly the kind of deluded cheerfulness that positive psychologists wouldn't recommend. "Healthy optimism means being in touch with reality," says Tal Ben-Shahar, a Harvard professor who taught the university's most popular course, Positive Psychology, from 2002 to 2008. "It certainly doesn't mean being Pollyannaish and thinking everything is great and wonderful...
...with the start of the Great Boston Burlesque Exposition and Vintage Fashion Fair, which will be held in Cambridge that weekend. Brown’s coming up from Florida to perform, so you can go check it out…you know, if you’re into that kind of thing...
...beware all giddiness), but they are optimistic about an imminent tide of innovations in technology, energy and transportation. Recall, please, the national mood in the mid-'70s: after the 1960s party, we found ourselves in a slough of despondency, with an oil crisis, a terrible recession, a kind of Weimarish embrace of decadence, national malaise - and at that very dispirited moment, Microsoft and Apple were founded. The next transformative, moneymaking technologies and businesses are no doubt coming soon to a garage near...