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...government. Fifteen whole paragraphs written “in character.” When was the last time a Times column ended with “God is Great. Long Live the Iranian Revolution”? (1) Goodbye, globalization The shocker. Back in my day, Friedman’s schtick was ranting about how the New Economy was “revolutionizing” every nook and cranny in the whole world. But this year, all we ever heard about was (a) “going green,” (b) how great/weird China is, and (c) how messed...
...mark when a boy band attempts a capella soul. AJ McLean’s soaring vocals—backed by the Boys’ humming—are positively contrived. The Backstreet Boys’ biggest downfall is their inability or unwillingness to let go of the serious schtick. The album is not fun, unapologetically poppy, or silly by any stretch of the imagination. Out of the 17 songs on the album, 12 are nauseatingly earnest slow songs. “Unbreakable” clearly demonstrates that an entire album of synthesized boy band angst is just not a pretty...
Sticking to his schtick of linguistic analysis, Pinker derided hamantashen for being an irregular plural. Using the Wug Test—a common linguistic experiment—Pinker showed that “latke” to “latkes” is a progression of a regular plural form and therefore “part of our innate universal grammar” while “hamantashen” belongs to a scanty contingency of irregular plurals in English that...
...alone in a single episode. This glorious achievement belongs to “When You Wish Upon a Weinstein,” the once-banned episode of Seth MacFarlane’s “Family Guy,” whose no-holds-barred, nothing-is-sacred schtick has made the show the biggest primetime cartoon since “The Simpsons”—and made MacFarlane a star. But for a man who has built his career on flouting the standards of acceptable humor on TV, MacFarlane sees himself as a kind of traditionalist...
...it’s a candor that Jeezy rarely displays. Mostly he just relies on his schtick, spouting syrupy trap-hop aphorisms and yelling “Yeeeeaah!” and “Ha ha!” so many times that Jeezy almost verges on self-parody. Luckily, even a bored Jeezy isn’t boring; his standard fare still swaggers...