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...Distortion,” an album with a guitar-heavy, feedback-sheathed sound that’s inspired by the work of The Jesus and Mary Chain. The similarities with the Chain are limited to the atmosphere, however, and the omnipresent distortion adds merely another interesting twist to songs that dwell in familiar structural and lyrical territory. While “Distortion” ultimately hesitates to ascend either to the melodic or satiric heights of the Fields’ magnum opus, it presents an innovative new context for Merritt’s smirking brand of indie pop.Album-opener...
...trial by television last weekend as literally half the population of the Netherlands tuned in to watch a bizarre twist in the unsolved case of Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old American who went missing in May 2005 after a night out on the Caribbean island of Aruba. Acting as the prosecution: Peter de Vries, a Dutch crime journalist, who presented his eagerly awaited take on the case on a Dutch commercial television station. The advocate for the defense: a rival channel, which aired an interview with one of the prime suspects in the case. Left in the dust...
Which is precisely the point of prop bets. Like any advanced form of capitalism, they twist something simple (like who will do better in the game) into a way to express yourself. My bet allowed me to self-express what a snotty jerk...
Cheah Cheng hye's life is a rags-to-riches saga with an Asian twist. As a boy in Malaysia, Cheah sold pineapples by the roadside to support himself after his father died. Years later, Cheah left behind a career in journalism to start Value Partners, now Hong Kong's most successful independent investment-fund firm, with $7.2 billion under management...
...says Novak, pointing to a basketball tournament sponsored by KFC in China and a menu there that includes healthier alternatives like roasted chicken. In fact, the roasted menu items are such a hit in China that Yum executives are testing them out in the U.S. It's an interesting twist: Yum is looking to the soaring international business to expand its appeal at home. What about bringing its Chinese-food chain to the U.S.? "Now that," says Novak, "would be a Class A opportunity." To put it another way, that's thinking outside the sticky...