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...Another car slows down near our section of the line. It's a late-model black, Nissan Pathfinder. A window rolls down and a middle-aged woman with a perm, heavy eye-liner, and a flashy adornment of jewelry scans the crowd...
...Most Jaded Police Sergeant in the World, DeGeneres does her usual deadpan routine, often mistaken for a dry reading of the script...gets tiresome, even more quickly because the set piece one-liner barbs evoke a senile or non-acting star (Brando or the Beatles) who can only film one line per take. Although the numbing sarcasm seems so sick that it ultimately becomes appropriate...
Mleczko centers a forward line with almost too much offensive firepower to fathom. As individuals, Mleczko and wingers Tammy Shewchuk and Jen Botterill are the top three scorers in the country, with only one non-Harvard skater--UNH forward Carisa Zaban--within 25 points of any Crimson top-liner. All three players earned First-Team All-Ivy League and All-ECAC honors, with Botterill taking home both rookie of the year awards...
...their heyday, the Pretty Things were maybe the nastiest band around, racking up a truly admirable 61 convictions. The hilarious liner notes to their new album answers the following question in the affirmative: "didn't they live with Brian Jones and get into real fights and have bisexual encounters in the mid 60s and get banned from places and stuff?" But it never explains why anyone should listen to this album and not their 60s triumphs. They out-Stoned the Stones. Unfortunately, both of these bands are still around. The Stones have sucked for a good long time...
...liner notes to Breaking God's Heart, the debut album by Scotland's Hefner, contain three injunctions, which characterize Hefner rather well: "If you like this record send us one of yours. Be kind to small businesses. Buy more Beach Boys records." These are good sentiments, well meaning and empty headed. Such is their music. Hefner's Brit-pop inclinations are balanced by Antony Harding's vocals, which careen from Elvis Costello to the Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano--although the lyrics never come close to the wit or heart of those...