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...There are a few unreceptive locals—one man glares from behind his screened porch, another refuses even to listen to the canvassers’ pitch—but most are polite and pleasant. The majority aren’t home, so they “lit drop,” leaving behind brochures on the candidates...
...play for us; supertitles introduce us to "Act I," "Act 2" and even the "Intermission." The set is spare and semi-abstract: a screen door, segments of wire fence, a window floating in the night sky. Secondary characters linger offstage in full view of the audience, or gather to listen at key moments, forming an accusatory Greek chorus. Video projections and ominous, movielike underscoring help solidify the enveloping tension and sense of doom...
...about the Bradley effect--the theory that secretly racist white people tell pollsters they'll vote for a black candidate like Barack Obama but will actually pull the lever for a white one like John McCain. The truth is that secretly racist white people happily vote for black candidates, listen to black musicians and laugh at black comedians to make themselves feel better about not having black friends. In fact, I once even tried to get all the way through Barbershop...
...there doesn’t seem to be any other explanation for the four minutes the lead singer spends wandering in circles amongst the trees on Gloucestershire’s foggy, barren May Hill. However, once (or if) you get past the repetitive monotony of the video and listen to the song’s lyrics, it becomes a somberly beautiful reflection about the need to tune out our information-heavy world and just be at peace with where you are. The song is the second single off “Forth,” the band?...
...become a truism. I mean, Christ, with the upcoming campus performance by Girl Talk and links to the Ratatat remixes being sent out over house lists, even the Harvard community is up on it. Most attribute this popularity to the inability of the modern public to sit down and listen to a full song and the lack of proper record stores. In fact, I think the truth is that a great many people like good music—it’s just that they’re sometimes not willing to search for it, or aren?...