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...carnivalesque party record that playfully combines the dazzling record scratching (of his DJ, Abilities) with his own lyrical acrobatics. The sharp meditations, smooth sampling and trippy beats are signs of a polished emergent star aiming for mainstream visibility. But his allegiances to an avant-garde vision are also clear: “I don’t care if you just broke up with your boyfriend/ I ain’t trying to go where every other rapper’s been,” he raps, typically self-conscious and indifferent...
...between pulses of the drum machine. Appropriately, Kelis sounds so bored in “Milkshake” she’s practically disembodied. It’s both mind-numbingly sterile and addictive, another fully functional product. The Neptunes don’t offer a particularly idyllic vision of pop in their assembly-line tracks, but they at least point to genuinely new directions...
...befits a person who lives under constant stress, Sejima says her aim is to create buildings that provide pools of repose within fast-moving cities. She sees her projects as "public spaces where people can be together in one place and talk and interact." It's a soothing vision of leisure that Sejima herself isn't likely to enjoy anytime soon. --By Michiko Toyama
Bush's campaign team is taking the long view. "The Democrats have spent $126 million telling the American people their vision for the future is they don't like George Bush," says telecommuting adviser Karen Hughes from Austin, Texas. "This kind of thing always has a short-term effect on the polls." But outside the inner circle, others were less sanguine. A longtime ally in a battleground state said the Bush team was reading its own press releases and was out of touch with the country. Another, on the West Coast, put it this way: "He doesn't have...
...days in office. The manned mission to Mars was rolled out with a flourish and then muted when the polls showed people thought it was a ridiculous waste of money. Bush's State of the Union address seemed, even to sympathetic Republicans, to have been mailed in, with the vision of a grocery list. His popularity numbers dropped after he gave it. Next came the admission by the Administration's handpicked weapons hunter, David Kay, that after hundreds of interviews and months of hunting, we had not found any weapon stockpiles after all. Nor was the link between Saddam...