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...Hard to Explain.” To describe the music, of course, there are the already clichéd Velvet Underground comparisons, but I maintain that they sound like a darker, dirtier, more anxious and volatile version of Weezer. They have precise, sonically taut arrangements with undertones of straight-up 50s rock ‘n roll. Or think of it this way: If Rivers Cuomo is the guy you would bring home to your mother, Julian Casablancas is the guy who would steal your mom’s car and then sleep with your sister in the discomfort...
...never quite tuned into the story until Thursday night, the manner was all wrong. An innocent man looking to salvage his reputation would be all empathy and earnestness, not defiant half-answers or the lawyerly "Don't say more than you're asked" stance, and certainly not a taut smile when asked whether you've killed a "close friend...
Anil Kumar studies the two crouching fighters as they circle each other in the small mud arena, the oil and sweat on their taut bodies darkening the waistbands of their bunched shorts. From his corner, Kumar barks a command and one of the men leaps at the other with his spear, its tip tracing the arc of his lunge through the air. The other man, squatting low, raises a pole above his head and crack! parries the blow. Kumar calls out a second time. Again the first fighter attacks, and the second man nimbly checks him. Then suddenly...
...advances in animation technique, the most successful films are the ones based on traditional movie strengths: story, script and acting. Toy Story and Shrek have plenty of glamour in their design, but they work because they are funny, their plot tensions taut, their characters persuasive. The heady promise of Pixar's Monsters, Inc. (due in November) is the creation of character comedy that moves faster than the speed of live action. Don't blink, or you'll miss a great...
...Celine. Also, she reportedly slept with U.S. radio shock jock Howard Stern and that's just gross. The Japanese doll, Mai, looks a bit too schoolgirlish with her pigtails. I decide on Stacy. Sure, with her 58-cm (23-in) waist, 95-cm (36-in) size C breasts and taut stomach, she's a babe. But don't hate her because she's beautiful. Since my mom is kind of conservative, the black mini-dress, size zero (women don't like women who wear size zero) would have to go before I took her home. But she has a gleam...