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...destined to be “that song from Garden State” is a humorous tribute to their good taste, and usually a prod to remind the listener that the opening doohs and dahs graced a McDonald’s commercial long before Natalie Portman’s oft-quoted pronouncement that the Shins music “will change your life...
...decade ago Beck played a song called “Mountain Dew Rock”, and despite making some spastic music in the past, only with this EP has he achieved something truly worthy of the moniker. Neon-green-tinted and jitter-inducing, the EP is like that oft-maligned beverage: the buzz fades quickly, but it may give you enough of a jolt to finally defeat Bowser --- or your Sea Change doldrums...
Nobody can accuse Mo Yan of thinking small. In dozens of stories and novels, he has tackled China's tumultuous past century with a mix of magical realism and sharp-eyed satire that has made him one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers. His Red Sorghum was turned into a prizewinning 1987 movie by director Zhang Yimou and picked by Chinese readers in a 1996 poll as their favorite novel. Mo Yan's Northeast Gaomi County, a fictional realm based on his hardscrabble hometown in the eastern province of Shandong, is as vivid...
...class participation in the Beanpot—neither has been crowned “Best in Boston” since the Crimson last earned the title in 1993—a win in tonight’s 5 p.m. semifinal at the FleetCenter will provide one of the two oft-overlooked sides with a chance to put an end to No. 1 Boston College and No. 14 Boston University’s decade-long duopoly...
Consider, first, ChrisRix.com. Florida States’ oft-maligned quarterback Chris Rix wins the prize for the greatest collegiate personal website I’ve ever seen. The fancy front page alone might be enough to win such an honor, as the tomahawk chop echoes over a greeting punctuated by Rix’s digital signature, which includes football stitches down the “C” in “Chris” and an “i” dotted with the crucifix. The first section of the website is devoted to Rix?...