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...Unfortunately the bleep - intended as a fleeting comic throwaway inspired by the famously blue-talking diva - did not happen.? My KCRW engineer - still employed at the station - forgot.? And this moment became what Ruth Seymour, my station manager, would describe to Reuters as my very own "Janet Jackson performance piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I Lost My Radio Show | 3/16/2004 | See Source »

Hornby is a spokesperson for music fans who feel the need for musical accompaniment in their lives wherever possible. Possibly the biggest revelation in Songbook is that it doesn’t matter why a song speaks to the listener, or whether it’s a throwaway pop song instead of a lyrical masterpiece. It is the connection that matters...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nick Hornby Discusses Songs, Books | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

This is not without an upside. I have been in love with the iconography of music for almost as long as I have been in love with music, but most album art is at best throwaway and at worst downright awful. Identi-kit rock bands with identical surly-yet-vulnerable gazes; rappers cramming enough bling into the frame that they drown in diamond-studded Cadillacs; songstresses wearing as little as legally possible. And if the cover is bad, what’s inside the little ego-booklet is usually even worse...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sound and Fury | 11/14/2003 | See Source »

...throwaway line in that party advertisement about coasting through a state school reflects an attitude of elitism that pervades social life here in our Ivy tower...

Author: By Lucas L. Tate, | Title: Harvard State U. Slumming | 11/5/2003 | See Source »

...Anything you need, Stifler. Anything." This conflation of actor and role is partly because of Scott's limited onscreen profile. His other film credits include Dude, Where's My Car? and Bulletproof Monk. But it's also a tribute to how seriously Scott took what was originally a throwaway role. "He was really just an a______," Scott says of the way the character was written. "I said, 'Don't make him funny. Make people remember...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Professional Jerk | 8/4/2003 | See Source »

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