Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Softbank-affiliated company. So is online grocer Webvan, whose initial public offering three weeks ago soared 66% on Day One. So too is Global Sports, which just launched shopping sites for Athlete's Foot and a host of other sporting-goods stores. And so on, to the tune of more than $40 billion in around 130 companies (even Softbank executives have trouble counting) or by various estimates, about 10% of the companies that do business on the Web. And that was yesterday...
...Beck" is a magic word. Beck, beck bananna-nanna pho pheck; Beck. The Pied Piper of post-grunge white boys everywhere, Beck Hansen leads us away from the dying city of Rock playing a tune of satire and pastiche. On Midnite Vultures, he eviscerates hip-hop, R&B and even Kraftwerk of their souls, piling the resultant carrion into a tower of intoxicating formal juxtaposition, and finally infuses these styles with his own pink-pants voice. Who would need anything more...
Maine (1-8-0, 1-7-0) is in 11th place only because the Black Bears have been fortunate enough to play--and beat--Yale. Maine will tune up with a game against Division III Bowdoin tonight before another tough game against UNH on Saturday...
...resentment born of the suspicion that all along the media were up to their usual tricks, hyping a notional calamity to the max in order to make us buy more copies and tune into TV specials titled The Day the Food Ran Out. Then, too, followers of certain religious sects will no doubt find it puzzling, if not downright disappointing, that the new year didn't begin with a spectacular slapdown between the Antichrist and Godzilla. Of course, preachers can always say the Creator called them on their cell phones at 11:59 p.m. to say Armageddon was being postponed.The...
Take his music. That Monty Norman's classic tune can be straightforward enough to instantly stick in one's head yet sophisticated enough to instantly trigger one's imagination is a minor miracle, not to be overlooked. It calls for a precise interplay of uncomplicated but carefully wrought elements: the tensely chromatic rise and fall of the bass, the edgy twang of crafty appoggiaturas, wailing brass punctuation in all the right places. It's just so. What the music doesn't need is a techno beat underneath...