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Deadlines passed; pressure mounted for marketable product; impatience festered within the band. Wilson abandoned and disowned the album, retreating to his bed for the better part of the next decade, where he became a mess of drug addiction and obesity. The Beach Boys stumbled out with Smiley Smile, a watered-down and vastly quieter echo of Smile’s original vision. The Beatles’ release of Sgt. Pepper became a landmark event, and their status atop the rock world was secure. The Beach Boys, lost without their creative force, slipped into artistic irrelevance and nostalgia tours...
...need any more proof that it’s time to deemphasize the human polls, just look at the body that’s ramping up its support of them—the BCS. When you see that mess headed your direction, you know it’s probably best to abandon ship...
Dodd wrote that by selling only 1,500 tickets, CityStep would ensure “the Roxy isn’t [the] overcrowded mess that it has been at other club parties...
That kind of stuff makes you realize that life in the wireless city of the future isn't necessarily unmitigated bliss. Information is a two-edged sword: it can empower you, but it can also mess with your privacy. And there's such a thing as too much info. Stick a wi-fi-enabled camera on a streetlamp, stick a solar panel on the camera for power, and suddenly you have got cheap, instant 24-hr. streaming-video surveillance. "How many cities wouldn't want that?" Stalter asks rhetorically. "So Blade Runner is happening." (I think he means...
...situation in Iraq is a mess,” Albright said. She called the conflict “a war of choice, not of necessity...