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...What is the Lennon legacy? There is the astonishing body of music. The jaunty anthems he wrote in the early Beatle years (1962-1965) may have been teen love songs, but they displayed an exuberant joy that is surprisingly undiminished by the passage of time. Then, once Bob Dylan showed him that lyrics could be personal, Lennon tapped into his feelings and revealed a gift for sensitivity and self-awareness that completely belied his oft-proclaimed status as "just a rocker...
...deeply imaginative, "True Swamp" swallows up all those other anthropomorphic animal comics and leaves them behind in a stinking pile. The hero, Lenny the frog, comes across a mysterious creature in the bog, but soon becomes envious of the attention it gets. This comic exudes a kind of joy and freedom in its seemingly loose, easy-going construction. And what a relief to see animals that are as likely to eat each other as they are to philosophize about the meaning of life...
...this good news? Or is this a threat to humanity's perch of evolutionary superiority? Alarm at the specter of ceding control over the creative process to machines has catapulted the debate beyond the scientific community and into the public forum. Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has written about a wide range of dangers that could arise when we no longer have our metaphorical hands "on the plug...
...black Volvo station wagon outfitted with flashing blue lights, the interior littered with cans and bits of trash. But its name is Black Shampoo, and it is the pride and joy of Joshua I. Weiner...
...most prestigious music awards, the Mercury Music Prize. Their 1999 American tour brought much critical acclaim and the approval of countless audiences. But the best thing about Gomez is that they don't seem to take themselves too seriously. Having said that, there not much apart from the inherent joy of the music that unites Gomez's sound. Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline is a motley collection of B-sides, reworkings of previous material and a few new songs, with such wide variations in texture and style that it's almost impossible to pin the group down. Machismo, the accompanying...