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...aluminum orange juice cans have tabbed tops that peel away with a twist of the thumb ... Paper clothes. High-style paper clothes that can be thrown away after a few wearings ... A pocket-size portable record player. Put on sale by Emerson, the Wondergram plays all sizes of LP records without a turntable, is powered by four flashlight batteries, [and] weighs less than 2 lbs. ... A language- translating computer. Built by IBM, it translates Russian into English. Its first assignment: translating each day's Pravda for the Air Force. It works at a rate of 1,800 words per minute...
...support this, but because Eminem will always have to be Eminem, such change must be presented thoughtfully and strategically. So he does the logical thing, filling the new record with a slew of hilariously regressive, yet stunningly witty jokes that would feel just as comfortable on The Slim Shady LP as they would on any of Weird Al’s records. Suddenly he’s being selfdeprecating, calling himself gay, stupid and whiny, but before we start laughing too hard at him, he flips the tables and nails us for liking him so much in the first place...
...hands on the circuit, as close to an establishment as indie gets. (In fact, they just announced a new deal with Atlantic, so you can scratch the indie label entirely.) The Postal Service project was hyped from the outset and a prepackaged audience greeted the LP at its release. Some of the songs were so good that they began to make the rounds in dorm rooms and on soundtracks (witness Iron and Wine’s pretty cover of “Such Great Heights,” featured in Garden State). This new deal with...
Inserted into the initial salvo of tracks from Rendezvous and 2002’s Romantica was “Slide,” a throwback to the group’s first LP Lunapark. The crowd responded positively, especially to the lines “New England has the foliage / But I’m not goin’ back,” despite the fact that the lyrics are more dismissive than praising. The joy of hearing their region name-checked by one of its semi-prodigal sons outweighed the actual message, or perhaps all that could be made...
...LP is a serious position,” said Kummer, philosophizing on his office. “The LP is not just useless bureaucracy, but the LP is somewhat akin to the Dean of Alcohol that Harvard has appointed and to whom I will have to pay heed at the Harvard-Yale game tailgate...