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Since his 2001 debut, Anthony Gonzales has continued to defy a categorical label, and with every successive release, his identity slips further from the fingers of those in search of one-word solutions. As integral as the ethics of electronica may be for Gonzales, who records as M83, many of...
“Accelerate” is what its title suggests: a return to speed for R.E.M., the godfathers of alternative rock. Given the lukewarm responses to their last three decidedly-subdued albums, the band should be commended for cranking up the volume, letting loose, and creating their shortest album...
Then, when the reaction did come, it was straight out of the standard communist playbook, phrased in language reminiscent of the worst excesses of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution. The violence was blamed on that "jackal dressed in monks' robes," as one official described Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the...
Chris Cooper is one of those actorswho, despite co-starring roles in dozensof films, may trigger only a vague mentalimage. From the homophobic colonel in“American Beauty” to the villainous CIAboss in “The Bourne Identity,” Cooper hasthe ability to slip...
The Bible paints an unflattering portrait of Babylon as a corrupt civilization cursed by ambition, excess and power-hungry kings. In the Book of Genesis, its residents build the Tower of Babel in a vainglorious effort to reach heaven - and God strikes it down, angered by man's overweening pride...