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...simplest level, GarageBand lets you lay down loops?prerecorded short riffs by drums, bass, piano and so on. There are some 1,000 loops to choose from on the basic software and 2,000 more on the $99 add-on, Jam Pack. Here's the clever bit: the loops are arranged not just by instrument but also under mood-based headings such as "Relaxed," "Intense," "Cheerful" and so on. Click and drag your loops into the score, and they become interactive. You can stretch and splice them like lumps of Play-Doh. In just 10 minutes I found I could...
...summer a couple of decades ago, my distinguished colleague Richard Schickel bemoaned the lot of a film critic assigned to write about the seasonal pack of muscle-bound action pictures. ?It?s not that they?re bad movies,? he said. ?It?s that they?re the same bad movie.? Our job, essentially, was to make cutting witticisms - to distinguish not between apples and oranges but between rotten apples and rottener...
...Both [Bernakevitch and Maki] are great individual players,” Smith said, “[and] I think Pack brings a lot of leadership to that line...
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...John F. Kerry is our bona fide Democratic candidate for the presidency. Or, should we say, bona fido? The media have taken a liking to describing the potential top dog and his pack in the most canine of terms, and their dogged use of canine imagery reduces politicians’ personalities to the one-word descriptions that package them neatly for voters: They’re sometimes trustworthy, sometimes loyal, sometimes frisky and sometimes vicious...