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...Same" has already appeared on the Next Best Thing soundtrack). So Vertigo, their latest album, was such a critical sensation in their native Britain than Elton John apparently bought 200 copies to give to all his friends. Even then, Groove Armada's reputation was built on their creation of laid-back atmospheric tunes-the type that suggest staring out into a Balearic island sunset rather than dancing on a club floor-and the duo's party-moving credentials were yet to be established. Choosing to come into town on a Monday night to play a DJ set was thus perhaps...
Hollywood has been making the same teen movies over and over, and in his last three films, She's All That, Varsity Blues and most recently The Skulls, actor Paul Walker has essentially played the smug, arrogant, big man on campus. But make no mistake: in these films, laid-back and very Californian Paul Walker is not playing himself...
When an eccentric old Mongolian walked into the backyard of a laid-back American poet in 1987, neither imagined, surely, that they would one day be lurching through modern China in search of a teacher's grave. But Tsing Tsai proved to be no ordinary monk, poet and kung-fu master; and George Crane turned out to be a sympathetic Sancho Panza and inner Mongolian at heart. Written with the quick, vivid immediacy of an ancient Eastern poem, Bones beautifully recounts the recent heartbreaking history of Mongolia--and shows how spirit can get the better of even the deepest sorrow...
...stinging loss, he went roaring out of South Carolina vowing that "our crusade grows stronger" and pitting "my optimistic and welcoming conservatism" against Bush's "negative message of fear." He added, "I want the presidency in the best way, not the worst way." Bush, stripped now of all his laid-back affectation, wants it any way he can get it. He's very good at gettin...
...members. If they made it to the six-month mark with no moving traffic violations, they could drive anytime with up to three passengers, "so they can double date," Eide says, laughing. All intermediate drivers must log 50 hours of supervised driving, 10 of them at night. (Eide's laid-back husband is the instructor of choice, she says, "because I'm always hanging onto the dash by my fingernails...