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Gluck lavishes layer after layer upon her theme, but the poems themselves are hard to grasp. Usually jumping straight to the big abstract idea, as in "I am weary of the world's gifts, the world's/ stipulated limits," she fails to illustrate adequately her points or make the reader feel them. Poor in images, her unsentimental poems are easily forgotten. Her form, occasionally (seemingly arbitrarily) rhyming, of dull everyday speech does little to enhance her words. Although she completely penetrates and bursts the peephole perspective of sexual resentment and idealistic angst, her from seems to lag behind...
...Funk Mob) shows. The album's delectable pastiche of 4/4 beats, cut-up vocals and instruments, and funk-tinged deep bass (even the Foxy Brown theme gets sampled) creates some of the most massive tunes to hit the dancefloor, including the storming single "Cassius 99" with its shout-along layer of Donna Summer's "Love is Just a Breath Away" vocals. There's an edgy feeling caused by the precise pruning of the synths and vocal samples midway, and this collage effect both reinvigorates old samples (Gwen McCrae's voice on "Feeling for You") and draws you into new songs...
...Devoted to "hole-plugging" and the menstrual cycle, this 'zine faithfully waxes dŽclassŽ on a semesterly basis. Their tampon jokes are hilarious-for the whole two minutes it takes to skim and toss. After exhausting all subtleties involved in the monthly shedding of the endometrial layer, Tampoon editors regularly indulge in jealous bashing of popular, attractive Hollywood celebs...
Business sense, along with five-layer coconut cakes and 100 percent linen sheets, "is a good thing," according to Martha Stewart...
...combat this problem, e-commerce vendors employ a technology known as SSL, or Secure Sockets Layer. SSL allows your personal information to be encrypted via the application of a sophisticated mathematical formula. The encryption process turns your information from a form that is easily understood by any human to a mass of seemingly random gibberish. The intended receiver of the information can then transform the gibberish back into its original form via a decryption process that uses a different set of mathematical formulas...