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Blogcritics Category: Music: Original - Jul 28, 2007
To appropriate something involves taking possession of it. In the visual arts, the term appropriation often refers to the use of borrowed elements in the creation of new work. The Dirty Projectors new release Rise …
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Blogcritics Section: Music - Jul 28, 2007
I always get miffed at the way people refer to pop musicians as artists. If there is any group of entertainers who are further away from fulfilling the definition of being an artist than they are I've yet to come …
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Blogcritics Section: Music - Jul 28, 2007
The sophomore effort for the Benzos second album Branches, is full of depression and gloom, and yet the band manages never to cross that boundary into emo territory like so many other bands before them. I guess coming …
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Blogcritics Section: Politics - Jul 28, 2007
Is there a broken recording of President Bush's speeches that he gives about Iraq? Speaking to American armed services members in South Carolina, the president said that the unpopular Iraq war is still winnable, and …
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Blogcritics Category: Video: Animation - Jul 28, 2007
There had been talks of a Simpsons movie dating all the way back to 1994, but it is only now, thirteen years later, that it has become a reality. I was definitely interested in seeing it, but I had some concerns going …
Tagged: video
Blogcritics Category: Culture: Society - Jul 28, 2007
I subscribe to several men’s magazines for my husband. He usually ignores them, so I read them; largely to keep myself abreast of articles that pertain to men’s health. In addition, one of these magazines sends online …
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Blogcritics Category: Culture: Society - Jul 28, 2007
I've been in London since 2:30 this morning. It's now 2:50 pm and I've not long since seen my first person crying in public. She was young and on the tube and dressed in a clownish manner that gave an air of …
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Blogcritics Books Reviews - Jul 28, 2007
I finished the final chapter of Harry Potter on Monday, but hestitated to post a review immediately. My feelings on the book that afternoon were not the same as my feelings that night, or the next morning. It was a …
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Blogcritics Books Reviews - Jul 28, 2007
Sometimes it requires a work of historical fiction to raise a reader’s awareness to taking on the true history itself. Denise Giardina’s Saints and Villains is a case in point. Based on the short, turbulent adult life …
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Blogcritics Books Reviews - Jul 28, 2007
In the early 1970s, when I was at primary school, an aura of glamour and excitement still clung, at least in childish minds, and the school library books that we read, to the "profession" of "air hostess". It meant …
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