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They get their name from a sign outside a furniture store: "For all your bedroom needs, everything but the girl." They couldn't have chosen a better name, because that is exactly what one likes about this album, everything but the you-know-who. Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt firs came out in 1982 with a jazz-pop sound, and people kind of liked them then. Now, numerous covers, one big Todd Terry remix club hit ("Missing"), one milestone album (Walking Wounded), several style shifts and too many years later, they hit out with a diffused house album that...
...Cardellini captures her simmering outrage with just the right mixture of sarcasm, melancholy and self-righteousness. And she's only one among the well-imagined, glam-free nerds and burnouts in this high-spirited, heartfelt story set in 1980. Amid TV's endless regatta of 1,000-watt, magazine-cover-ready superteens, NBC has created a rich, character-driven ensemble show, fueled by Styx music and outsiders' gallows humor, that's more Richard Linklater than Kevin Williamson--and has rewarded it with a time slot in Saturday night's Siberia. Now, in fact, might be a good time to register...
...WATT RADIO put next to Furby can change his personality, even his name...
...century has also turned science into the principal agent of technology. When James Watt built the first steam engines 200 years ago, he had intuition but not the laws of thermodynamics to guide him. We do not sufficiently applaud our century's discovery that science can be useful--or the degree to which science has come to depend on technology for its new instruments: powerful telescopes, atom smashers, computers...
...Watt's father, after whom the chair isnamed, died earlier this month