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...Jewett says the information may be used to corroborate evidence. Students' concerns are overblown because Ad Board officials realize the limited nature of the card key information, Jewett says...
...Gene and Dean are no slouches at the music. Their talent has been subverted to a higher purpose, what Sacvan Berkovitch might call the Myth of Rock. While other bands try purge themselves of the excesses of rock and roll, Ween wallows in inane lyrics and guitar heroism and overblown sound effects. They don't deny that rock is bullshit; their music celebrates it. On vinyl, this means double albums, and songs imitating anyone and everyone: their first album, God Ween Satan--the Oneness, features an eight-minute Prince cover, a 20-second sendup of John Fogarty, and a whole...
...like voters, Wall Street can be fickle. The market is concerned that a Clinton landslide would give the Democrats too much of a license to tax and spend. Such a mandate could send stocks into a downward tailspin. On the other hand, bond market inflationary fears may be overblown. With unemployment high , and factory capacity low, sharp increases in wages and prices are unlikely...
Throughout the play, overblown production techniques inadvertently makes the play more funny than awe-inspiring. The final scene, a bitter exchange between Jason and Medea, is a case in point. The chariot from Euripides' play is here replaced with a gargantuan elevator/space ship device complete with glowing neon tubes. Medea, suspended in this contraption, curses Jason through the chain link fence while industrial music crashes away and lights flash. Dwarfed by the "E.T"-like production, the exchange itself seems rather trifling...
...Mann's biggest previous accomplishment was producing "Miami Vice," and it shows. The movie is visually self-indulgent: every vista is sweeping, every valley is shrouded in mist, every stream plunges impressively down a rock face. Any minute, you expect to see those damn flamingos. The soundtrack is equally overblown, with swelling orchestration to hammer every point home. There are no quiet bits; there is no restraint whatsoever. If "Dances With Wolves" was masturbatory, "The Last of the Mohicans" experiments with autoerotic asphyxiation. Motorhead, playing Wagner, would be more subtle...