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...Hollywood "Fellini-esque") and its tributes to popular songs are exquisite. The review of Brian Eno's "1/1," tells how the bedridden singer's inability to reach the volume knob on his stereo led to the creation of an entire genre of "ambient music," and provides eager but inexpert music fans with a greater understanding of pop music's evolution. But the problem with the book - and indeed with many music reviews - is that unless the song is familiar, it fails to inspire. It's one thing to read about Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean," but quite another to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pitchfork 500 | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...place, there is a great risk of simplification. Policy makers and the public want an easily digestible analysis, distinguishing good from bad and recommending blanket action. Academics who insist on a nuanced view are often sidelined. Their role in framing the debate is then filled by an obliging but inexpert press, which resorts to dismissive stereotypes when their Manichean analysis breaks down...

Author: By Hassan Al-damluji | Title: Only Education Can Tell the Story | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...theaters, as we at the Met got translations on the backs of the seats we were facing.) Behind him, on 12 rows of bleachers than span the stage, a chorus of about 150 keened along. Once the plot kicks in, though, the music becomes westernized and, to these inexpert ears, neither daring in form nor instantly appealing in tune. The color scheme ?? rigid and vivid in Hero, wonderfully lurid in Golden Flower ? is not so much subtle here as absent: grays, mostly, with rare and welcome splashes of bright tones in a carpet laid down under the bleacher steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Chinese Movie at the Met | 1/13/2007 | See Source »

...course, I was only interested in the articles, which was fortunate, because there was pretty much nothing but articles in the whole magazine. The scarce glamour shots-most of them as chaste as a church tea party-revealed a total of 19 nipples, of which just three, to my inexpert eye, were erect enough to hold a sunburst ornament safely in place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Uses of Civility | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...with more extensive disclosure and more rigorous probing by specialists in reviewing financial data. The commission believes the bureau dropped the ball in the Hanssen case because there was no unified, professional security structure. Instead, background checks were handled by multiple outside contractors who assigned crucial tasks to generalists inexpert at tearing apart financial disclosures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Post-Hanssen FBI Circles the Wagons | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

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