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...debut album did not. Proving herself a master storyteller, Newsom’s fantastical, erudite vocabulary and haunting imagery are given context in these larger narratives. In what amounts to an experiment with the boundaries of pop music, Newsom’s unparalleled complexity and imagination serve to weed out the casual or unadventurous while rewarding the faithful; a close parallel would be Captain Beefheart. Indeed, her virtuosic musical composition and her way with words echo that prog-rock godfather, whose songs were similarly otherworldly. Newsom, whose similarity to Björk was hard to ignore on her debut...
...Midwestern sojourn. The most obvious gloss? R. Kelly kidnapped him. He’s the one driving the Phantom around the Loop; Snoop’s eyes look more than a little glazed over, and does anyone doubt that everyone’s favorite peddler of sex weed knows how to get some roofies in his own hometown? Plus, R. Kelly seems desperate to suck up. It’s “your boy Kells,” he fawns, and he lavishes Snoop with girls in thanks for giving him the hook. But the gesture...
...We’re not doing this so we can weed out people,” Drake said. “We’re doing it to collect information...
...compared to the long-term effects of criminal records. Unfortunately, marijuana represents the counterculture to many Americans. In subsidizing the prejudices of culture warriors, the U.S. government is subsidizing organized crime. The drug war’s distortion of immutable laws of supply and demand makes an easily grown weed literally worth its weight in gold. The only clear winners in the war on marijuana are drug cartels and shameless tough-on-drugs politicians who’ve built careers on confusing drug prohibition’s collateral damage with a relatively harmless plant. The big losers in this battle...
...you’ve decided that Social Studies is the way to go, you’ll soon realize that it has an application. Don’t sweat it, but don’t apply just for the sake of applying either. It’s meant to weed out only a few, and those initially rejected can usually talk their way in. Oh yeah, writing skills might help.It’s often a crapshoot whether you’ll get to be in the vicinity of a senior or junior faculty member or a lecturer or post...