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...full display on its latest CD, The Phat Pack (Immergent). The rapidly twisting unison and ensemble lines of Cut 'N Run are like a breakneck drive on a winding road--dangerous and exhilarating. On the title track, misterioso woodwind passages alternate with a soulful, pounding minor blues. The streak of humor in Goodwin's writing comes to the fore in wry nods to his TV and film composing, including the finger-snapping Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, complete with a scream and a splat...
Primal Scream: 1. Harvard ritual in which several hundred brave souls streak across the Yard on the night before the first day of exams. 2. Harvard ritual in which the entire remaining student body congregates to watch them—along with approximately 20 old men with video cameras...
...tried to change the title from the so-stupid-it's-brilliant Snakes on a Plane to the hopelessly generic Pacific Air 121 while also cutting out the geysers of scripted violence to get a PG-13 rating. Jackson summoned his "Am I the only sane man on earth?" streak of indignation to encourage like-minded moviegoers--who want to see snakes bite people in painful places while they try to join the mile-high club--to voice their displeasure on the Internet. Sure enough, Snakes arrives with an R rating, bad dudes getting their cruel comeuppance, dialogue suggested...
...denial. Richard Peterson, a San Francisco psychiatrist who specializes in financial decision-making behavior, points out that "people would rather gamble and hope prices come back. They ignore information suggesting that prices are dropping." It's the same mentality that leads blackjack players to double down in a losing streak...
...Chinese weren't always so quick to leap to the defense of man's best friend. When I first arrived four years ago, my Canadian neighbor's dog Genghis-a pug with a self-important streak that rivals that of his namesake?was one of the very few dogs in our Beijing neighborhood. Other people on my street kept pets. There were old men who hitched elegant bamboo cages to their bicycle handlebars every dawn to pedal their songbirds out to the park for a morning of refreshment. There were well-fed crickets, flocks of homing pigeons that hummed through...