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...Dark,” while the horns and swagger on “Livin’ in the Future” recall “The E Street Shuffle” and “Tenth Avenue Freeze-out.” Towards the middle of the album, the tempo slows a bit. “Your Own Worst Enemy” sounds remarkably like late-’90s R.E.M., which isn’t surprising considering Springsteen and R.E.M. toured together in support of John Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2004. The crescendo of vocals...
...channeled the Caribbean to some exciting results, but this one belongs on American Idol. Hopefully this song is just an aberration and the start of a Ja Rule-like career trajectory. Grade: C Sean Kingston – “Beautiful Girls” Moderate vocoding on mid-tempo R&B seems like a fool-proof template for radio hits; I’m surprised that it took this long for someone more appealing than Akon or T-Pain to cash in. Lyrically, Sean’s track is tough but treacly, and manages to pull off using...
...June that serious and persistent reliability issues could "significantly" reduce the aircraft's anticipated role in Iraq. V-22s built before 2005, the report said, are fully ready to fly only 35% of the time, while newer models, like those in Iraq, are 62% ready. But "sustained high-tempo operations in [Iraq]," the memo warns, could drive down the readiness rates for the newer...
Then there's the problem of tempo. Other modern movies move at warp speed, but the cowboy hero is a man with a slow hand. As Christopher Frayling, author of biographies of Eastwood and Leone, notes, "You can speed up spaceships and cars, but you can't speed up horses." A director also has a tough time making the old new--and the western is 19th century. "Americans don't like the past," says Andrew Dominik, the New Zealand-born writer-director of Jesse James. "They're O.K. with future and the present, but they can't remember anything before...
However, the play of the usually up-tempo Crimson squad was clearly withering in the heat. The quickness that Harvard can usually rely on to beat defensemen down the wing and to win balls in the middle was seldom on display against the Black Bears...