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Pavement“Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition”(Matador)3 starsIn the music nerd encyclopedia, “Wowee Zowee” has two listings. The first is “a 1995 album by Pavement”; the second is “a difficult, confusing album, released with the intent of scaring away potential pop success.” Example: “The new Arcade Fire album is totally gonna be their Wowee Zowee.”You might say that “Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition,” a two-disc...
...Ninth, and the Nazis were known to listen to Wagner with rapture after a good day’s genocide. Harvard English professors themselves—who have spent a lifetime immersed in literary scholarship—are hardly moral paragons, although I will refrain from scrounging up the sordid details of their personal lives...
...These days, even Ice T—notorious for his ever-so-slightly controversial song “Cop Killer”—plays a police officer on television’s “Law and Order.” In a more sordid twist, both T and Snoop Dogg have taken their pimpin’ personas all the way to the bank, with their own lines of pornographic films.Only years after denouncing films that “exploit the color,” Ice Cube has turned into a bona fide Hollywood star. His work, since...
...political experts like MacManus fear this sordid episode could drag Florida voter turnout, already low in midterm election years, to new depths. And Foley's resignation, they predict, will resonate well beyond Florida - and could have a downer effect on young people contemplating careers in politics. "With boomers retiring, we need the new generation to come into politics," says MacManus. "But this is the kind of episode that has a chilling effect especially on younger folks because they identify most with the kinds of things involved - the Internet, the power of bloggers and such." In other words, today's brand...
Harvard University is involved in a sordid love affair. For hundreds of years, one obsession has remained at the beating center of the University’s soul. We have thrown money into duplicating it, waltzed with it all throughout Cambridge, and wailed endlessly when the relationship has come under fire. Luckily, it appears that Harvard is at last ready to make the final split with its old flame: red brick...