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...then, the band's misanthropy seemed a bit of a pose. But on Everything Must Go, its second album in three years (2000's Two Against Nature won four Grammys, including Album of the Year), Steely Dan fully inhabits the role of rock's would-be Humberts, swinging through lite jazz riffs and dropping amber-encased phrases like "the big adios" while the girls ignore the come-ons. On tracks like the heartsick Things I Miss the Most--with Fagen yearning for the days of "Frying up my sad cuisine/Getting in bed and curling up with a girlie magazine...
...pair of pool tables, two dozen computers, a free jukebox, a “lite-brite” LED announcement board, a smattering of culinary offerings from burgers to bubble tea, a TV labeled for “ad hoc” use and a math help station bombard the student who descends the granite steps to the basement of Harvard’s cathedral-like Memorial Hall...
...buttery glazed apple from my plate, she insists that she never worries about what physical havoc her eating habits may cause. "I try to exercise, but I don't have any muscles. Every cell of my body is weeping and crying out." But working out and eating lite are simply an impossibility. "I'd rather move fast and wear a long jacket...
...least four kidnappers dead. Military officials said that the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) were responsible for the kidnappings. Germany's intelligence service says the group has never targeted civilians, and one of the hostages said the kidnappers wanted money. Members of Germany's élite counterterrorism unit continue to work with Algerian authorities seeking release of the remaining 15 hostages. NO RELEASE RWANDA Nearly 800 former inmates suspected of genocide have been rearrested after being released in January due to overcrowding in the country's prisons. The Justice Ministry said that there are new charges against...
...like "pink sorbet on a barbecue." Then again, the world was asking for it, what with the webcast suicides, the rampant porn and the chickens altered genetically to consist of nothing but a mouth and a multitude of (barely) edible breasts. As for the social arrangements, the precatastrophe élite lived in walled compounds while everyone else scrambled in the teeming "pleeblands." In other words, it was the world we live in now, only more so. Even if the outlines of her story are familiar, what we look for from Atwood are intricate characterization, a fully imagined alternative universe...