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...sounds better to me coming through my alarm clock speakers. I don’t think it’s a fluke—the most compelling thing about that record is how their piano is mixed to sound like it’s punching through the cloud of thin, ringing guitar and hoarse drums (and it comes across just as energized and hypnotizing as the bassline in, say, Britney’s “Toxic”). The tinny speakers simply double the effect. But the point is that the production itself is a huge part of what...
Husband-and-wife team Charles and Ray Eames exemplify the postwar embrace of modernism with their whimsical take on the project. Their materials are modern, but the chair’s metal legs are thin and nearly hidden...
...feature released in 2003. Sylvain Chomet’s film aims for a multinational texture and is largely devoid of dialogue, but nevertheless retains a distinctly French sensibility with a penchant for shrewd cultural allusions. A clubfooted widow, Madame Souza, trains her chubby grandson Champion to become a stick-thin cyclist with the help of bulky canine Bruno and her restless whistle. One day, Champion is mysteriously kidnapped, along with two of his fellow Tour de France riders, by amusingly ominous members of the French mafia. In hot pursuit, Madame Souza travels to the Dionysian metropolis Belleville, where she enlists...
...only hope now is that the Constitutional Court will reverse his removal. By Saturday evening, he had made no direct comment on his ousting, although his spokesman urged the nine-judge court to deliver a speedy ruling, expressing confidence that the pretext for the impeachment was too thin to legally stand...
...couple months, and what I have seen has been Oscar catch-up. Last Monday, I went down to Kendall and saw Monster and The Fog of War back-to-back. I thought that Fog of War was a cutting stunner, right up there with The Thin Blue Line as the best Errol Morris I’ve seen. I mostly saw Monster because it was shot in my hometown—my sister thinks that the film’s skating rink is the same one where we spent a lot of Saturday mornings...