Word: classically
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...prepared for the wrong Games and had come in their winter uniforms. The Russian and Polish teams seemed to have bought their wardrobes from the cheapest outfitters in downtown Smolensk or Gdansk. The winners in the fashion stakes were definitely, and hardly surprisingly, the Italians, who went for simple, classic style with a twist. Both men and women wore elegantly cut dark jackets over trousers or skirts in half a dozen bold colors. The ensemble effect was striking and bright while still looking classy...
...Crimson's newest members have already taken an integral part in the team's success. Posipil started all three of the team's first three matches at the New England Classic last weekend and registered 13 kills against Southwest Missouri State. Miller, Dildine, Bendush, Meunier and Murphy also saw playing time last weekend...
...spite of the hard work that the team had invested into its preseason workouts, the Crimson lost its first three matches of the year at the New England Classic last weekend...
...Hendrix-permed Clapton, B.B. with a processed 'do - would have been worth the price of the CD by itself). There's too much going on in the background (why bring in two more guitar players?) but the song selection is judicious, wisely capitalizing on King's classic back catalog, and both veterans are in good form, trading off vocals and sharp solos with an immediacy that suggests they were actually both in the studio having fun at the same time. Besides the requisite hot licks, one of the album's pleasures is how well Clapton acquits himself vocally alongside King...
...Perhaps, five decades from now, we will look back at today's culture and see that it was classic. We will find Eminem's lyrics in college poetry texts, and museum exhibitions on The Art of Doom. But for now, and from this crabby perspective, it looks like junk. Junk passing as bold popular art. Violent entertainment, from WWF to Howard Stern to the sleazier rap music, is not adult. It is, essentially, infantile - the expression of a caterwauling baby whose main pleasures are breaking things and playing with his caca. And the child of the '50s that still lives...