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...Walt Disney's daring decision to include Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in Fantasia just 27 years after its cataclysmic Paris premiere triggered a near riot. Couldn't the makers of this ultracautious sequel have found anything more adventurous to animate than Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (yawn) or Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto, a pleasant student piece written in 1957 for the composer's teenage...
After the sinister sci-fi stylings of 1995's Outside and the dense adrenaline electronic stylings of 1997's Earthling, shapeshifting rock legend David Bowie is taking a break, in the form of this little nap and yawn...
...even more angst. Unlike her prior albums, which dealt with Amos's traumatic past, To Venus and Back doesn't really have a theme, but Amos insists that it was instead inspired by her Muse. "I look at the piano, I stalk her, she looks at me, takes a yawn, and goes to sleep . . ." Amos says of her fabled friend. "When she does show herself . . . she demands that I become a hunter, a hunter of her frequency." Got that? Yet, even if you don't understand the Muse, never had a miscarriage and never been happily smitten, you can somehow...
...Advanced Micro Devices. The new chip, also known as the K7, is slated to ship later this month on selected Compaq Presario and IBM Aptiva 865 machines. For the first time in ages, beleaguered AMD has a speed edge over rival Intel, whose Pentium III chips chug away at (yawn...
...defied Mr. Gore's apparent inoffensiveness, and brought a slew of letters, banners, and other accoutrements to bear soon after. After all, these were the same stalwarts who found problems with Gro Harlem Brundtland, the Prime Minister of Norway; lesser minds would have passed over that name with a yawn, but the past masters came up with an issue for each ideological wing--the right assailing her support of abortion, the left her country's less-than-Jane-Fonda-like appetite for whale products...