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...there is much to both like and dislike about the disc, Jackson’s first studio release of totally brand-new material since 1991’s Dangerous. But for the first time since Thriller, the erstwhile King shows that he’s capable of breaking the mold once again. The King is dead. Long live the King...
...songs themselves vary in quality. The album is a collaboration with scores of musicians whose artistic visions have all been distilled by the Gloved One himself. At times, his musical choices seem adrift in pop culture limbo; they do not fit effortlessly into the tired mold of his past, neither do they completely succeed in making the transition to being on the cutting edge of modern...
...scummy but oh-so-scrummy rocker, tells village-girl-making-good Yang: "A love relationship is just a series of lies between two people." For this, he gets a slap in the face, a knee in the groin and is then told to "bugger off." Their relationship fits the mold for any rock star and groupie: namely, dysfunctional and bordering on the catastrophic. "There are a hundred ways to die," Yang muses. "Dating a rock singer is one of them." Then Michael appears, gets a place in Road's band and develops one in his heart for Yang. The performances...
...appliances on their way out of the loop. Then I set up the gleaming new Panasonic DMR-E20 recordable DVD player, a device designed to kill off the VCR. Instead of using videotape, it burns the images directly on to a special disc, preserving them forever, safe from mold and wear. The digital format also makes your homemade discs as easy to navigate as prerecorded DVDs: for instance, a pop-up menu lets you access all of the files on a disc so you can say goodbye to the rewind/fast-forward shuffle. Among other benefits, discs take up less space...
University presses and some other small publishers have generally continued in their traditional niche of releasing academic (and rather obscure) titles. Some larger publishing houses, however, have carved out a new mold for themselves as Instant Gratification Machines of sorts, anticipating and catering to the public’s wants. And, until very recently, these two areas of the industry, the small-scale specialized press and the large-scale mainstream press, seemed destined to drift further apart...