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...Album: Pure Pleasure...
...calls the dipstick theory--the idea that a test score is like a mark on a dipstick showing the raw amount of intelligence in your mental oil tank--the field outgrew that simplistic notion at least a generation ago. "I don't think anyone believes the SAT or even pure [IQ] tests are--or have ever been--a pure measure of intelligence," says Zwick, the former SAT Committee chair and author of Fair Game? The Use of Standardized Admissions Tests in Higher Education (2002). "There is not a test that is completely independent of environmental experience or experience...
...appear to have studiously avoided wandering under a showerhead since birth. Yet in photographs they never fail to appear devastatingly stylish, like a bunch of Bowery James Bonds. This poseurship is just one of the reasons it takes immense critical discipline not to hate them. The Strokes' effortlessness is pure fiction; not since the Velvet Underground met Andy Warhol has a band so effectively been art directed to achieve the look of not having been art directed. But when you hear the Strokes, that cultivated cool disperses with every passing guitar chord, and suddenly, just by listening, you're cool...
...Alvar Aalto, the Finnish architect whose work is one of Gehry's lifelong inspirations. Gehry's multicolored floral-pattern upholstery is another nod to the comfort factor. A tribute to Lillian's love of flowers, those theme-park reds and blues are also an antielitist gesture that's pure Gehry...
...track to radio stations, and a London-based DJ picks it up for his gigs. Gotta Get Thru This, the single, "was raw, it was original-sounding, it was very edgy and it had a lot of impact," says DJ EZ, who includes it on one of his popular Pure Garage compilations in 2001. Then the doors swing open: to a big record deal and chart success in the U.K. and U.S., where Bedingfield's the only Briton to have scored two Top 20 singles in the past year (take that, Robbie Williams). The musical superlatives mask a major part...