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...epic, each endeavoring to top the previous in terms of sheer technical prowess. It’s far and away the most exhilarating track on the album and easily the most fun thing Prince has recorded in a decade. And what would a Prince record be without a salacious slow-jam for your hook-up mixtape? “Incense and Candles” fits the bill nicely. Prince and a female accompanist exchange sexy bon mots over a simple keyboard melody as the track builds to its climax: Prince’s spoken word interlude, in which he describes...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prince | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

...like you’ve heard some of the patter and pop-culture references of “Slevin” before. Director Paul McGuigan and writer Jason Smilovic owe the larger part of their souls to Guy Ritchie (for flashback sequences with crazy lens shading), John Woo (for slow-motion fight scenes), and Quentin Tarantino (for the entire script and plot...

Author: By Hayes H. Davenport, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lucky Number Slevin | 4/5/2006 | See Source »

...accented Marlene is in fact a trucker's daughter from Benalla, in Victoria's Ned Kelly country, and the painting's contested authenticity will drag the smitten Boone and his "gorgeous thief" all the way to New York via Tokyo. Supplying comic verve is the book's sometime narrator "Slow Bones" Hugh, Boone's 100-kg idiot-savant brother. Wandering city streets with his folding chair, "I was up and off like a greyhound after an electric hare," says Hugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Literary Steal of Approval | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...covered by hundreds of patents, each with distinct claims, yet it may take only one case of infringement for a judge to issue an injunction, compelling many companies to pay the trolls to go away. U.S. House Republican Lamar Smith, co-sponsor of a reform bill, wants to slow the litigation gravy train. "We need a judicial system that does not reward people who file shaky claims on patents," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patently Absurd | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

...Lavrov was not alone in pushing a continued go-slow approach. Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo made an effort to distance himself and his government from the U.S. - European strategy as well. The confrontation with Iran, he said, "can only be resolved through peaceful means. The Chinese side feels that there has already been enough turmoil in the Middle East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sealing the Deal on Iran | 3/30/2006 | See Source »

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