Word: techno
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...gate, the grunting speed skater leaning into the finish line, the crowd erupting when the ice princess sticks her triple-triple. All that winter music is about to strike up in Torino, the capital of Italy's northwestern region of Piedmont. Starting with an eclectic mix of classical and techno beats at the opening ceremony this Friday, the 2006 Winter Olympics will run through an 84-event schedule that concludes Feb. 26 in perhaps its most raucous moment, the men's hockey final. Through it all, the host city (pop. 900,000), the largest and most urban setting...
...Nick of the classic “Thin Man” films, and The Wolf (Patrick Warburton), actually a misunderstood investigative reporter, is a carbon copy of Chevy Chase in “Fletch,” complete with hoodie, Lakers jersey, and 80’s background techno. The music sequences are also hysterically overdone, particularly one in which the Woodsman (James Belushi) yodels in praise of the Schnitzel Stand he operates while being chased by a pack of hungry, lederhosen-clad children. Of course, everything is ruined right after the song, when the woodsman breaks out the phrase...
...hand-picked by Yo-Yo Ma to perform with him in the Silk Road Festival earlier this year. Koh will be playing the Bach Chaconne on the cello to the contemporary number.“[Divelbliss’s piece] is a more minimalist type of modern, accompanied by techno music,” says Joanna R. Binney ’08, one of the four dancers who have been performing this number since last year.The sixth piece—choreographed by Rebecca Alaly ’05, now a dancer in New York City—is something...
DERY: I'm fascinated by this idea that JetBlue could be transformative. Weren't we supposed to be celebrating the death of geography right about now? According to the last wave of techno-hype, in the newtopian '90s, we were supposed to be swirling clouds of data bits, teleporting from one point to another through fiber-optic cables...
...That Madonna’s latest video is such a blatant plea for urban legitimacy is all the more baffling given the fact that her upcoming album “Confessions on a Dancefloor” is being publicized as a Euro-techno romp and the song itself bears as little relation to hip-hop as the average 50 Cent track does to, well, Madonna...