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Manzanita‘s ten songs Todd proves that form can indeed triumph over function, at least when it comes to female singer-songwriters. Todd has a solid album here; with better lyrics and more cross-pollination from her Plug Research peers she could eventually have a classic to her name...
...backdrop for much of what appears in "Archilab" is the mid-20th century triumph of consumer capitalism and what was then its house style, classic Modernism. By the late 1950s the iconic Modernist building?an unadorned box, made of glass and concrete or steel, typically perched upon an empty plaza?was springing up in every part of the developed world. It was a style that could produce individual works of great beauty, but in the aggregate could transform whole city centers into visual and spiritual dead zones...
...Schmeling became the first European to win the world crown when he beat Jack Sharkey on a foul in 1930. In 1936 he launched a famous rivalry when he knocked out U.S. challenger Joe Louis; his loss in a 1938 rematch at Yankee Stadium was hailed as a national triumph over Nazi Germany. But he was miscast by Hitler as an Aryan superhero; he refused to join the Nazi Party, and after the war, it was disclosed that he had saved two Jews from attack in the Kristallnacht violence in 1938. He befriended Louis later in life, quietly giving...
...Amber Liu, returning to action unranked after taking a semester off following her second straight NCAA Singles Championship last spring, took down Crimson captain No. 27 Courtney Bergman in straight sets, 6-1, 6-4. Sophomore No. 93 Preethi Mukundan kept the upset bid alive with a tenacious triumph over No. 41 Whitney Deason by the narrow margin...
...follows that up with nothing more than a photo of Triumph, the Insult Comic dog, and the following caption: “This is Triumph from the Conan O’Brien Show. He’s pretty funny, who cares...