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...fact, this sort of upside-down, unconventional comedy is a trademark in his work. So is his habit of blurring expectations, sneaking pathos into farce and the ridiculous into tragedy...
Fortunately, Timbaland rises to the challenge with some of his most potent work to date. Looking to old-school predecessors for inspiration, he ditches his trademark angular stutter-step to anchor the beats in thunderous boom-bap, charging them with a newfound immediacy. The low-end artillery in “Funky Fresh Dressed” sounds made for a gargantuan boom box, and “Slide’s” ominous boom reels in the body like a black hole. Though technology coats the beats in platinum, the classic hip-hop samples laced throughout the album lend...
Dramatic, hauntingly glamorous and sometimes surreal, Wilson’s selections feature Lynes’ trademark dark foregrounds with subjects lit from just behind the head. In one classic image, dancer Martha Graham stands with her arms placed above her head in an angst-ridden pose. Another, of Tennessee Williams, shows the playwright gazing off to the right in a black sweater with torn sleeves...
...morning of the meeting, everyone gathered together--except Ebbers, the most important attendee. Cooper refused to start without him. After 30 painful minutes, he finally strode in, wearing his trademark sweat suit and holding a cigar, remembers an employee who was there. "What in the hell is the purpose of this meeting?" Ebbers demanded to know. Cooper, in her low, serious voice, asked him to have a seat and turned to her first slide, which defined the purpose. "He wanted to know where his next dollar was coming from," Cooper says. And she told him. Her division could find millions...
...were used to eating their meat in paté form. Though now considered a poor-man's sandwich filler, mortadella used to be made from the finest cut of the livestock, before production was increased and popularized after World War I. Tamburini is convinced that the region's trademark tortellini must have arrived from China. "The form is too perfect, too precise for us to have invented," he says. Motioning toward some of the 90 different cheeses and 95 pasta shapes he sells, Tamburini says he frowns on too much cross-pollination of regional and national cuisines and insists...