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...seem to have devolved–something one would have thought impossible–into even simpler, standard fare. On this, her third solo album, Lavigne aspires to the same fuck-you pretension that marked her past two discs, but the sound is ultimately too polished to pull it off. Sure, overproduced music can be fun, but it has to full-throatedly embrace that spirit of plasticity. Lavigne has abandoned her formerly rambunctious ‘tude for something lifeless and much less dynamic. Transformation has often made for interesting pop stars. Christina Aguilera’s metamorphosis from...
Even with Byrne and Prince leading the offensive effort, it was not enough for Harvard to pull ahead of the Eagles. For the remaining five innings, the Crimson placed only two more runners on base...
...evidence, harsh sentences had been expected. The commander of the group and one other soldier received the maximum penalty, 20 years, while a Scorpion who had confessed got 13 years. The man taped mocking the boy got only five years because the court found that he didn't pull the trigger himself. Most disappointing, the judge seemed eager to absolve the Serbian government and, to some extent, the accused. She called the Scorpions an "irregular volunteer unit," insisted they had no relationship with any branch of government in Serbia, and said there was no evidence that the deceased were from...
...sweetly sad Bridge to Terabithia as the next Narnia, the Web was awash with fanboy invective, not for the film but for the trailer's misleading emphasis on fantasy. In the end Terabithia did respectably with family audiences, earning more than $100 million worldwide, but it didn't pull in the nearly $300 million that Narnia...
...black and eight of the families she has worked for are white. "A friend asked me, Don't you feel like you're the mammy?" she recalls. But she finds her job fulfilling, and sometimes amusing. "If you're someplace with the family and the baby starts to pull at your blouse or put his hand in your bra, that can be embarrassing," she says, laughing...