Word: soundness
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...kind of affair. Much has been made about the decline of rock at the hands of Pro Tools, but a monkey could have mixed this album better with GarageBand. Throughout “Chinese Democracy,” Guns N’ Roses imitate every conceivable style of rock, sounding more like a bad tribute band than the rock messiahs they were once heralded as. Rose whines all over “Riad n’ the Bedouins,” a prog screed that Yes forgot to record; “Better,” the album?...
...Duran Duran set the group apart from contemporaries who opted more toward revival than integration. With their third studio album, “Day & Age,” the Killers once again try to push the boundaries of mainstream music by stretching beyond their already idiosyncratic repertoire of sound. But for a band that’s no stranger to mainstream success and has sold more than 12 million albums worldwide, the question is: why change? Though “Day & Age” rests on the same bone structure of up-tempo dance beats and catchy choruses that made...
...told Frederick huskily, and lay down next to Felicity.Frederick stood above them, his legs spread wide like a colossus, and began to unbuckle his trousers. He heard the drumbeat of anticipation in his ears. Too late, he realized what the drumbeat was: the sound of hoofbeats.“Onward Zalathal!” cried The Stable Boy, barefoot and shirtless, as he and the stallion burst through the French doors into the center of the bedroom.Frederick had thought he couldn’t be any more aroused. He was wrong...
Yesterday morning, the leaders of India’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party, called for a United Nations mandate “to destroy the edifice of terrorism in Pakistan” through intervention. There were cries of popular support. Sound familiar? It echoes the rhetoric of 9/11, but this time such bombast will not be successful...
...What Obama calls strength might sound like a formula for contentiousness or even failure, especially when you consider what happened with George W. Bush's first foreign policy team, which had its share of big personalities too. So fraught with palace intrigue was that arrangement that then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld refused to attend key meetings called by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. Secretary of State Colin Powell, for all his star power, was all but frozen out of the real decision-making?and the foreign leaders he visited knew it. And Vice President Dick Cheney was a power center...