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...sense of the picture's cinema style, you should "put 80 pounds of fireworks into an industrial dryer, crawl right in there with them, turn it on and then light the fuse. It'll give you a good idea of the visual onslaught you'll be enduring." As usual with Colbert, the humor highlighted a sneaky truth: in its assaultive creativity, its high-speed, multilayered imagineering, Speed Racer is like nothing you've ever seen. And it is gorgeous: a totally designed environment that is a rich, cartoonish dream: non-stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Racer: The Future of Movies | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...horns that fanfared “The Tipping Point” have disappeared, replaced by the icy production values that “Game Theory” hinted at. The album’s sonics are unrelentingly bleak: everything’s minor-key. Drummer ?uestlove’s usual crisp snare work has to wade through a sea of fuzzy synths to make itself heard. While a headphone album is nothing new for the Roots, the unenergetic electronic textures get claustrophobic quickly. The album features vocalist cameos, but it doesn’t have a melody to speak...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Roots | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

author, she was not as active a researcher as usual. And Pinker said that in his pre-book days, he ran a lab with half a dozen graduate students, and that now he just has one or two at a time...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Pop-Science Paradox | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

...There’s an immediacy and a context more particular than the walls of a museum or gallery.” Her work, which has been exhibited in Milan, New York, and China, is meant to be a long-term, holistic project. Therefore, Hays, who describes her usual artistic process as “impulsive more than anything else,” has taken a more methodical, regimented outlook on this particular set of pieces compared to her usual style. “Most of the time it’s impulsive and unplanned, and influenced by the availability...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alexandra M. Hays '09 | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...questions. "I was railing against the neighbors in the Kampusch case," a businessman who lives across the street told the Kurier. "Now I am in the same situation." So, perhaps, is all of Austria. "It won't be possible after this case to just go back to the usual course of things," wrote the Vienna daily Der Standard in an editorial today. "A whole country has to ask itself what it was that has gone so fundamentally wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cellar Incest Case Shocks Austria | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

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