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...nerve. His prosecution of the war sent a message even to those who disagree with him that he will do whatever he thinks it takes to keep the country safe. All his attention on Kerry's shifting votes is less substance than subtext: Where's the guy's spine? When Bush uses "Steady leadership in times of change" as the tag line on his new ads, it suggests that a President who likes to talk about results would now rather focus on reflexes, maybe because when it comes to finding Saddam's weapons and pacifying Iraq, the results...
...stacks echo the architecture. I love that this vision was not entirely practical. Officeholders mosaic their sterile doors with photographs in an effort to humanize them. Librarians look cowed by the empty space surrounding them. For the Scandinavian Modern chairs’ part, there is a bruise on my spine from a collision with one of them; I wear it like a badge of honor...
...Frusciante does. Shot through with synths and full of the rich, sweet harmonies that distinguished By The Way from its predecessors, Shadows almost sounds like a pop album on songs like “Omission.” Frusciante is careful to maintain his outsider/auteur credentials with three eerie, spine-tingling synth tracks, but the rest of the album is given over to meatier stuff. The opening track, “Carvel,” is a miniature masterwork, emerging from a sheen of synths to grab you by the ear with a hook that keeps metamorphosing into something...
...towards selective inattention to—rather than vigorous persecution of—the decidedly uncool. I cut and dyed my hair, she kept her long, perfectly straight mane. And just thinking of her voice, which was always strangely deep with rich, wavering cadences, brings a chill up my spine...
...really ready for a close-up now. Panasonic has introduced the Lumix DMC-FZ10 4-megapixel camera ($600), a superzoom still camera that mimics camcorders in its ability to close in on shots. Its 12X-optical-zoom Leica lens lets you capture clearly the writing on the spine of a paperback 9 m away. Too much zoom can sometimes result in shaky pictures. To counteract that, Panasonic integrated an optical image stabilizer, technology commonly found only in camcorders. Stabilizer or no, it's still a challenge to shoot at great distances. That's why, for anyone interested in the FZ10...