Word: stretch
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...soaring vocals—backed by the Boys’ humming—are positively contrived. The Backstreet Boys’ biggest downfall is their inability or unwillingness to let go of the serious schtick. The album is not fun, unapologetically poppy, or silly by any stretch of the imagination. Out of the 17 songs on the album, 12 are nauseatingly earnest slow songs. “Unbreakable” clearly demonstrates that an entire album of synthesized boy band angst is just not a pretty listen. The Backstreet Boys didn’t seem to get the memo that...
...says Suzanne Lecht, the American director of the Art Vietnam Gallery in Hanoi. "Artists who could barely afford anything a few years ago can now drive luxury cars." But the rapid cash inflow has put commercial pressure on these artists to churn out foreigner-friendly images that don't stretch their imaginations. Many galleries are complicit, preferring to stock interchangeable images of women in conical hats strolling past crumbling French architecture. "Art students know they can make a good living painting these themes," says Gang of Five painter Luong. "It's difficult to convince them to be adventurous...
...Orwellian world only a stretch of the imagination? The former tutor of North Korea’s ruling family thinks not. “North Korea is not an ordinary dictatorship—it is a religious cult,” Hyun Sik Kim told 200 audience members yesterday in a speech entitled “North Korea Inside Out—How North Koreans Think, What They Want, Why They Submit to Kim Jung Il.” When asked what religion they practice, Kim said North Koreans say they study the teachings of Kim Il Sung, the country?...
...Whatever. It's just the regular season. It means about as much as Isiah Thomas swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's an 82-game stretch of coaches trying not to get fired and players trying not to get microfractures. So don't worry, Portland fans, Greg Oden will be back when it counts - his contract year...
...boozed cross-dressers, walking food products and pop-culture oddities slowly crawling about at almost 1:30 Sunday morning, closing time here. But Molly Kelley, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pointed at the large unpopulated gaps of littered concrete from a balcony overlooking the seven-block stretch. "Two years ago this place was packed like sardines," she says. "You couldn't move. Either you got run over by [police] horses or climbed on light poles...