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...Pop music success is often about hooks and image, radio play and squeezing into niches. Today, pop music often divides listeners more than it unites them, as fans take sides for and against gangsta rap or rap-rock or alt. country or teen pop. Shallow music sells because it can be understood readily within the 3-minute span of a pop song; great music endures because it can stand up to repeated listens, and, in fact, grows with each hearing...
...clicked through, I for the first time marveled at Firefox, a crazy, bizarro version of Internet Explorer that somehow blocks pop-up windows. I appreciated the multitudes of movie trailers played through iTunes. I gasped at how my first semester grades benefited from some kind of invisibility cloak built into the Registrar’s website. Amazing...
...Susan Sontag has undeniable impact. She is one of those critics who must be judged by their presence as well as their performance. However badly she writes, she will probably continue to shake up academic complacencies ... Her serious posture, too, will go on being a rebuke to slovenly new pop critics, who are often condescending to their material...
...DIED. CONSUELO VELAZQUEZ, 84, classically trained Mexican pianist-turned-pop composer, whose sultry World War II-era ballad Besame Mucho became one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, covered by artists including Sammy Davis Jr., Celine Dion, Jose Carreras and The Beatles; in Mexico City. In a 2003 interview, Velazquez revealed that when she wrote the famous lyrics at age 17?"Kiss me over and over, as if this night were the last time"?she had never been kissed...
...suggested that his visage may one day grace a Japanese banknote, as does that of Meiji-era novelist Soseki Natsume, a Murakami influence. Others he admires, Murakami has admitted, include Fitzgerald, Carver, David Foster Wallace and Tim O'Brien, all of them Americans. Indeed, Murakami's fondness for U.S. pop-cultural references has moved local critics to complain that he worships the West at the expense of things Japanese...