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...Will Roll,” is even more direct in delivering the dance music beloved of O. As she sings, “Off with your head / Dance ’til you’re dead / Heads will roll / On the floor,” multiple synth lines whirl, finally dropping out altogether to leave a drum beat reminiscent of LCD Soundsystem.Later tracks offer a more nuanced and diverse vision of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ new sound. “Skeletons” is a magisterial ballad that is remarkably gripping given its chilly atmospherics and unsettling...
...major touchstone is Paul Greengrass's Bourne Ultimatum, surely the most influential action film of the decade. Quantum appropriates Bourne's tilt-a-whirl camera and ADD editing, not to mention the vigorous skirmishes on roofs, in cars and hotel rooms. But the big similarity is in the two films' heroes. James Bond and Jason Bourne are both company spies whom their governments want dead, and both are coping with their girlfriends' violent deaths...
...Gossip Whirl Can "Obama shred the rumors" [June 23]? Sure, but should he be distracted and waste his time and energy doing so? The best response to untrue and exaggerated blather is to simply say it is not true and let the accusers expend and frustrate themselves trying to prove otherwise. Ron Blackmore, HAMILTON...
...Irish result set off a whirl of confusion, with officials struggling to suggest how the E.U. might respond. "The Treaty is not dead," said European Commission President José Manuel Barroso. "We should now try to find a solution." The first step, he urged, would be to continue the process of ratification, a task all other member states have left to their parliaments. "The ratification process is made up of 27 national processes, 18 member states have already approved the treaty, and the European Commission believes that the remaining ratifications should continue to take their course," he said...
...Reasoning-related freakouts rather than, like, joining organizations and making friends or whatever. It wasn’t until sophomore fall when I received a Facebook message inviting me to comp The Darker Side, WHRB’s hip-hop department, that I began participating in the frantic extracurricular whirl that defines the Harvard experience for many. Aside from my work for a certain weekend magazine, no class or activity took up as much of my time that year as my effort to know everything—or even, say, half—there was to know about...