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...greatest accomplishment is that it defies easy categorization. Cornelius’ unaffected approach to his music lets him stand in a privileged position outside genre boundaries, free to grab whatever suits him, looping and tweaking it to fit into his grand framework of sound. The result is catchy yet structureless, informed by decades of pop music but empowered by technology: Post-pop, perhaps? Until his imitators inevitably arrive, Cornelius will remain a fascinating, utterly original figure. Rating...

Author: By Crimson STAFF Writers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music | 2/8/2002 | See Source »

Another activist who wished to remain unnamed says, "what's going on at Brown is a groundswell, leaderless and structureless." He adds, "things happen spontaneously. In hallways around campus there are more and more conversations," about issues...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Activists Shake Brown | 2/13/1985 | See Source »

...performance with more shape. If Porter had worked more on a consistent interpretation of the musical, that shape would be easier to detect. Something must give Purlie its enduring popularity besides the gags and snappy tunes that, even here, brought some viewers to their feet--but, faced with this structureless and contradictory melange, an audience is hard put to guess what...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Purlie's Paltry Persuasion | 12/10/1981 | See Source »

...ills of their societies. And Gardner's calls for "Beauty, Truth and Goodness" are not far removed from Arnold's famous celebration of "sweetness and light." But Gardner lacks the formal power, the rhetorical skill which Arnold employed to make the abstract palatable and comprehensible. Gardner's book is structureless. The divisions between chapters are arbitrary, and just about the only overall element of the book that seems planned is the appearance of Thor's hammer at start and finish...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Muddled Morals | 5/3/1978 | See Source »

...listen to this album if you are a jazzman; if you like electronic beeps and structureless trinkles, sans vocals this is the worst investment you could make. Daltrey performs quite conventional and ordinary songs; the way he performs them is extraordinary and therein lies the quality of this album and of Roger Daltrey. Daltrey is helped along by the best supporting cast and Who soloist has ever assembled: Entwhistle plays bass, Rod Argent sweeps the keyboards, even Eric Clapton brings his talents to play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Something Old, Something New | 10/11/1977 | See Source »

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