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Discouraging too is the rough, hasty feel of the album. The cover and interior art is just ugly, with a rather curious motif of the primary colors magenta, blue, and cyan. None of the photos are appealing to any degree; cheesecake fans will be sorely disappointed. Spears doesn’t even look happy to be at her photo shoot—her once youthful exuberance has metamorphosed into a tired repetition of midriff shots. The album’s music itself is less than forty minutes long over twelve tracks, and none of the songs has the strength...
...else in the world can do what you guys do when it comes to convincing the best minds of my generation to follow your madness, becoming well-fed and Hermés-clad, dragging themselves through midtown streets at dawn, looking for the car service home after a rough night with a pitchbook...
Peerless at setting scenes, Morris is not nearly as interested in laying out the issues that Teddy subjected to his rough-and-tumble handling. Morris is surprisingly stingy with background. The General Post Office controversy, the Cuban reciprocity treaty: What things of consequence were at risk there? Don't ask Morris. He's good with the sizzle, not so good with the stakes. When he tells the story of Roosevelt's intervention in the Pennsylvania coal miners' strike of 1902, he deftly sketches in the players--George F. Baer, the imperious representative of the mine owners; John Mitchell, the charismatic...
...rough cut was preceded by Look Back, Don’t Look Back, a quirky, popular short film Bell made with Justin Rice ’99 about trying to procure an interview with Bob Dylan. Their collision with the blockades around celebrity creates a clumsily funny and endearing film that is more about the journey than the destination...
...While opposition politicians have a rough ride, says Gillian Koh of the government-aligned Institute for Policy Studies, the PAP wins votes in large part because, at least until recently, it has given Singaporeans what they want: booming economic growth, which has resulted in a share of the popular vote consistently above 60%. "Defamation is a huge sledgehammer, but the PAP is also basically a grassroots party that works very hard at listening and selling their message on the ground," Koh says...