Word: topness
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While Weezer echoes the Top 40 on “Raditude,” they maintain the quirks they are best known for and integrate them into the one dimensional composition of the songs. The album’s openers, “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To” and “I’m You’re Daddy,” are the two most Weezer-esque songs on the album, hearkening back to the band’s early career...
...over-the-top nature of “Raditude” undermines any attempts Weezer makes at deviating from their new-found direction. “Love is the Answer” is a failed attempt at semi-serious themes, embodied in lyrics such as “There will come a day / When we transcend our pain,” which seems out of place on an album of stories filled with teenage drama (cf. “The Girl Got Hot,” “In the Mall?...
...Bensussen manipulates this play-within-a-play trope to great success for the majority of the opening scenes. The actors take on their roles with the delightful awkwardness of children in a school play—scripts in hand, direction shouted at them mid-scene, and endearingly over-the-top line readings. Yet as the show progresses, the actors become more comfortable in their roles, and the production shifts from a clever tongue-in-cheek commentary on social performativity into a relatively normal presentation of Shakespeare’s play. The irony of this “Shrew?...
Entrenched interests often protect themselves at the expense of innovation. Barack Obama can’t reconcile that tradeoff. The president spent Wednesday in Wisconsin explaining his revolutionary $4.35 billion Race to the Top initiative, which will give states an immediate monetary incentive to reform dilapidated public schools...
Race to the Top is a part of the broader American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. While it constitutes only a small fraction of the $96.8 billion allocated to the Department of Education under the stimulus package, it will be money well spent...