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...tell if your subject is an informer? How do you convince them that you're not one? When one of Joshua's colleagues tries to film an early protest march, a monk shoos him away, perhaps suspecting he's a spy. With its haunting score and slick editing, Burma VJ not only captures the fear, paranoia and exhilaration of the undercover reporter, but also gives a bruising idea of how precarious life is for millions of Burmese...
Pure Evoke Flow Smoky chrome dials and a high-gloss black finish make this one slick set. But the Evoke Flow ($200) has a stack of smarts behind that flash exterior. Its intelligent search function lets you hunt stations and podcasts by name, genre or language. So whether you're craving a dose of alt.rock or zydeco, your favorite sounds are never more than a couple of button pushes away. www.pure.com
...devastatingly effective game that has taken Nadal, 22, to the top of men's tennis. In 2008, he recorded one of the sport's most successful seasons, becoming the first player since Bjorn Borg in 1980 to win on the slow clay of Roland Garros in Paris and the slick grass of Wimbledon in the same year, while also picking up an Olympic gold and the ATP's top ranking. Given all that, you might expect Nadal to stick with what's working. But he and, most especially, his coach can't help themselves. Having proved that Nadal's unique...
...pounds.” Common certainly has more technical ability than other rappers making generic club music, but on “Universal Mind Control,” any rhythmic complexity in his delivery is completely negated by the oppressive regularity of the underlying beats. The production is slick but entirely unimaginative. The first six tracks on the album all begin with the same technique, a four-beat repetition of the first measure of the instrumental track followed immediately by the full instrumental and vocal tracks. The album is entirely devoid of live instrumentation, as if it had emerged...
...Aztec city that, after all these years, we were certain was built somewhere in the catacombs of Axl’s skull. What we expected was the sound of Siddhartha playing a solo conceived from the empyrean bliss of the all-being. What we got was an exceptionally slick, exceptionally boring chunk of self-indulgence that GNR could’ve spit out in 1993 and saved itself the effort. Not for its sheer magnitude could it even be crazier than “808s and Heartbreak.” Lunacy, thy name is Kanye. —Ryan...