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...Well, the law of averages was on their side. Most music that pleased teenagers was produced by entertainers with a notoriously short shelf life. Pop singers came and went swiftly, leaving no trace on the shoreline of popular culture...
...music, you can age like milk or you can age like wine. You can live life with a sell-by date, counting the days until everything goes sour and a new shipment of 2% takes your place on the shelf. Or your career can be like a fine Bordeaux, and you can make the kind of music that only improves as time goes...
...music, you can age like milk or you can age like wine. You can live life with a sell-by date, counting the days until everything goes sour and a new shipment of 2% takes your place on the shelf. Or your career can be like a fine Bordeaux, and you can make the kind of music that only improves as time goes...
...were thrown out in a state run by your brother. But what is everybody else's hurry? It will be hard enough for anyone to govern without a rush to judgment setting off a cottage industry of the grassy-knoll variety. Do we want Who Stole Florida? on the shelf alongside Who Shot JFK? Yet when Gore's deputies threatened litigation, Bush spokeswoman Karen Hughes warned that this would be unhealthy for the country. "That's not the way we do things in America," she huffed. Since when? Suing one another is all we do in America. And heaven forbid...
...cleverness gone sickeningly trite. She draws on the materials of appearance, like bas-relief shirt pockets and women's eyelashes, and claims that this is an "embodiment for emotion" using the things that mask our emotions, yet it just doesn't work. The felt shirt pockets put on a shelf merely recall the millions of other found and seemingly found objects that already call museums home...