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...fourth floor." High-tech trash talk!) It's almost eerie: Apple employees all like one another, and they have a strong sense that they are the chosen of the earth, and they're not going to be a jerk about it, but all others who dwell on this mortal coil are missing out by not working here...
...adaptation of the Braxton classic, everyone’s favorite contralto was all weepy because her boyfriend got blown up in a motorcycle accident. In Finnish director Antti Jokinen’s Missy clip, we see Miss Demeanor’s beau make a similarly shuffling exit from the mortal coil. Now, if the video were as lame as the self-pitying album version of the song, it would be ’96 all over again. Luckily, Missy added an amazing new verse, and Jokinen realized that it’s way cooler to watch a murder than...
...stakes with their last outing, “A Close Shave,” wherein the lives of the protagonists seem to be in genuine peril, the two reside in safer territory in “Were-Rabbit.” This time, anything that’s in mortal danger can generally be found at a salad...
...with a question: which Neil this time? the folkie? The grunge progenitor? The acoustic country guy? Or the avant-gardist whose sonic violence can make instruments--and sometimes fans--cry out for mercy? For his 31st album, Prairie Wind, out Sept. 27, it's yet another Neil Young: a mortal one. In March, Young was told he had a brain aneurysm, and Prairie Wind poured out of him in the week between diagnosis and his undergoing surgery. Naturally, there are songs about death and loneliness, but the album, one of the most melodic of his career, also deals with religion...
...When Elizabeth Costello commands Paul to "push the mortal envelope," he tries to oblige, virtually adopting Marijana's teenage son Drago and rescuing his sister Blanka from a brush with the law. But it's the pull to her push that gives the book its arresting comic edge. Like "scrupulous doubter" Coetzee himself, Paul doesn't totally believe in the merits of his tale: "I am not a hero, Mrs. Costello." The lady, of course, won't have a bar of it. She exhorts Paul to be a fictional hare rather than a tortoise: "Don Quixote is not about...