Word: barely
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...album. A comment on one Radiohead website called the track "a blatantly stupid attempt at making a cheesy dance song." The song, however, is intensely aware of its own artificiality, as given in the title. The lyrics make repeated references to "bunkers," and the counterpoint of Thom Yorke's bare voice against the drum machine conjures images of confinement...
...Indicative of unpleasant histories, Guston's coneheads are, in the end, more than pointed satire-or, put in another way, they are less, much less. At heart, they, like his representations of shoes and easels, are pure physical objects that offer the happy promise of a bare, unmediated language of communication. They prove, perhaps, that a child's intuitive gaze may not be too far off the mark after...
...pictures are of bare women, stripped down to their undergarments and untainted by any real external distractions-their naked shoulders, backs, stomachs, legs and buttocks. The women are nude or close to nude, but they're not flesh on display; they exist purely and magnificently in themselves. Every blemish and detail is defined in its natural state, but they aren't imperfections or flaws. Rather, they are celebrations of the beauty of the unaffected womanly body, of mothers and friends and sisters. There is no pretense involved...
...Mark Twain," but he's no Mark Twain. Actually, he's pretty sentimental and pedestrian.) Anyway, Lawson got that one right, about sports. Since colonial days, when diggers on the goldfields made sure they always had time at the end of the day for a football match or a bare-knuckle fight, Australia has cherished games of all sorts. Harry Gordon is what they call the dean of Australian sportswriters just now, and he feels the country's sports nuttiness "was nourished by distance, a sense of inferiority and a desire for oneness." Maybe so. Did you know Australia...
Christina Aguilera seems too small to contain her voice. The 19-year-old singer's bare waist--so thin you'd think it could fit between two parentheses--looks too tiny to support the strong, soulful melismata that flow from her lips. In fact, Aguilera's talent seems to require more space than the teen-pop world can provide. While Mandy Moore and the like go comfortably about the business of churning out plastic pop--and Britney Spears manufactures successful distractions like her strip tease at the recent MTV Video Music Awards--Aguilera's vocals strain and flutter against...