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Boston Councillor Stephen J. Murphy, chair of the committee on public safety and a co-organizer of the hearing, said that he and other councillors seek to close the loop-holes that allow minors to purchase alcohol...
Instead of sounding like a random conglomeration of synthesized noises, most tracks on Autoditacker strike you as a unified whole. Only upon closer listening do their constituent parts become apparent. Samples and drum loops build on each other to form an almost seamless wall of sound. Rarely does one sample call attention to itself-except when the composition calls for it-and rarely does any sound seems superfluous. At times, Mouse on Mars samples live acoustic drums, but most of the time they use synthesized sounds percussively, a technique that makes their songs quite arresting. The 12 purely instrumental tracks...
...whose work doesn't end with the election; it really just begins. Fund raisers who once shelved their donor lists between elections now turn donors into clients on whose behalf they lobby the very same politicians for whom they were raising cash just weeks before. It's a seamless loop of influence peddling--donors get access, candidates get money; and lobbyists get rich...
...wrong bus. We're talking about the bus and its scarred passengers and the sweep of ugly yellow institutional buildings bordered by weeds and unkempt hedges and the fact that the bus we're on doesn't even go anywhere, just there and back, there and back, a closed loop. We're talking about people who get lost and wash up on Wards Island and people who are used to not looking and the question of why people in this city don't stop more often to say to each other "You look lost. Can I help you?" When...
...movie, adapted from Carl Sagan's novel, is good--up to a point--on the inevitable hubbub that follows. Leading it are a national security adviser (James Woods) going nastily paranoid about space invasion; a presidential science adviser (Tom Skerritt) trying to shunt Ellie out of the loop as the government builds the shuttle (plans kindly provided by the aliens) needed to penetrate our newly defined outer limits; and--oh yes, oh help--Palmer Joss...