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...what's lasted longer are Eno's abnormal squawks of processed sax and early synthesizer that punctuate the magnificent romp of tracks like Do the Strand. Many British fans never forgave Eno when he split from Roxy Music after just two albums and headed off into musical outer space. But in New York City they came to adore him - eno is god read the graffiti in the late '70s - as he set about reinventing the studio as an instrument for making music rather than a place for capturing it. That, for better and worse, is how much of today...
...soap Ugly Betty, she's a fashion-magazine assistant who is distinctly unfashionable--chunky sweaters, frizzy hair, bear-trap braces--but succeeds through good old Yankee values like perseverance, optimism and hard work. Smart and sweet-hearted, she embodies the Puritan-Shaker-Quaker principle of valuing inner good over outer appearance. She's as Norman Rockwell as a chestnut-stuffed turkey. The actress who plays her is even named America Ferrera...
...Appalachian,” which she shares with Will Oldham, Bill Callahan, and other members of the literary singer-songwriter caste. What separates her from those male counterparts, however, is her blend of folksy stories with the truly avant-garde, as much a call from outer space as a call from the wilderness. The tales of “Ys” ring like the stories of a parallel world, memories of a lost world, or the ghost stories of an imaginary kingdom. No song on “Ys” will appear on a mix CD and rightfully...
...waiting for a call from something that looks like a nasty Ridley Scott creation from outer space doesn’t necessarily attract big government bucks—as such the program relies mostly on private funding...
...Maybe Criterion's chief service to film lovers is not its restoration of the titles we all know are classics but its insistence that certain recent titles, especially the ones on the outer edges of the mainstream, are classics of the future - movies like David Gordon Green's George Washington, Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl and Lodge Kerrigan's Clean, Shaven. Ramsay's 1999 story of a boy's troubled childhood in Glasgow in the 1970s is tender and harrowing at the same time. The disc includes three of her short films, two of which won prizes at the Cannes...