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...Last Brother by Joe McGinnis. Who is this character with a famous name and a mind marinated in platitudes? Certainly not pure fiction, which might have been convincing, but a lifeless creature born out of New Journalism and the checkout-counter culture. Bad novel and bad biography, The Last Brother gives twice as little for the money...
...kept astronomers in anguish since it was launched three years ago.'' In fact, the Hubble telescope has opened up new horizons for astronomy, allowing scientists to peer farther into the depths of space and more closely at nearby stars and galaxies than ever before. Whether the value of pure science is enough to justify the Hubble's cost is certainly a matter for debate, but the value of Hubble to astronomy is irrefutable...
...fade with more recent Disney catastrophes like “Brother Bear.” The tale—of a young chicken determined to save the world despite a tarnished reputation for over-exaggeration—is fine and even kind of sweet at times, but it creates pure apathy. You may not be bored, but if the movie were to suddenly stop, you probably wouldn’t notice. “Little” tries way too hard to espouse the “Shrek” mode of contemporary ironic detachment from traditional cartoons. We begin...
...want the truth the truth is boring.” Who knew that Britain’s pop master had thoughts past booze and broads? Williams then points the lyrics at himself, taking him to previously unexplored areas of introspection. In the gentle ballad “Make Me Pure,” he settles on his faults (“I got a ton of selfish genes and lazy bones beneath this skin”), and, paraphrasing St. Augustine’s fabled exhortation, he pleads to the Lord to “make me pure...
...lead single, features deep, reverberating guitar chords reminiscent of an instrumental Coldplay B-side. Closer “Farewell Fire” is an epic of atonal layering, sustaining its tension even as the music fades into the gentlest of murmurings, and finally, two minutes of pure silence. In “Campfire,” BoC has yet again succeeded in adding warmth to the traditionally sterile genre of electronica. Recordings of the brothers playing ‘real instruments,’ electronicized beyond recognition, form the foundation of the tracks. Friends’ voices, birds chirping...