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For most of Susan Boyle’s fans, buying her new album last week meant getting a shrink-wrapped CD, not a download.
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After so many years, and so many lists, you might think the task of choosing the 10 Best Books would get easier. If only.
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So far, the data on the 2009 Christmas shopping season is coming as fast and furious as information about Tiger Woods' mistresses. But the data are equally unsatisfying: instantaneous and relentless, but not comprehensive or insightful.
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The DVD box set is the newest and most terrifying form of ritualistic abuse we inflict on one another.
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Glenn Horowitz, a rare-book dealer who is handling the auction for Mr. McCarthy, said: “When I grasped that some of the most complex, almost otherworldly fiction of the postwar era was composed on such a simple, functional, frail-looking machine [an Olivetti manual typewriter], it conferred a ...
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But Mr. Hirschorn also ventured a guess: he said there may be as many as 1,000 reality participants on television at any given moment.
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Many have made profound records with a heavy hand and dumb records with a light hand. But making dumb records with a heavy hand: that is for the true hot-doggers, those who truly love their own scent and know that immortality in the arts is both a construct and the desired thing.
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When someone starts talking about a sequel, the last thing you usually want to hear is “more of the same.” That is, unless your idea of a good time is mowing down thousands of preternaturally fast, agile and of course ravenous undead as you and three friends try to escape the zombie apocalypse.
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Wait. What real value? Come now, my prominent executive friend. Have you not glanced at Street View in Google Maps? Have you not relied on the humble aid of the search-box calculator, or checked out Google’s movie showtimes, or marveled at the quick-and-dirtiness of Google Translate? Have you ...
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crossword constructors duplicate one another's themes and grids all the time. The all-time most overused theme might be this list of breakfast foods each beginning with a European adjectival: ENGLISH MUFFIN, FRENCH TOAST, DANISH PASTRY, and SPANISH OMELET. (These puzzles are invariably titled ...
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We’ve seen certain patterns emerging. It’s been a bit of an off year, and the must-read milestones have been rare. There are fewer towering histories and biographies than usual. There’s more attention to a subject of newly urgent interest: finance.
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People go through life looking for different things. Some want money. Others crave fame or are driven by sex. Many are motivated by family. And a few just want love. As for me, I’m looking for an epic or legendary low-recoil assault rifle with a high degree of accuracy, a rapid rate of fire and ...
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And that the ideal Fantastic Mr. Fox movie would be a work of slapdash animation, soundtrack by Mötorhead, directed by Bobcat Goldthwait?
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Bang or whimper? Fire or ice? Happily, holiday moviegoers interested in pondering the end of the world can select scenarios far more elaborate than those simple, traditional choices.
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To its credit it [“Pirate Latitudes” by Michael Crichton] does include a line destined for pirate fiction immortality. “And my mistress shall dine on your testicles,” this book’s villain tauntingly tells its captive hero.
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You shouldn’t listen to “She Wolf,” the first song on Shakira’s album of the same name. You should flatten out its essence and put it on your fridge door, or some other graveyard of kitsch.
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“I should be having sex with more girls.” This is what John Mayer concluded, using slightly more colorful language, last Sunday night at his anonymously modern apartment in SoHo.
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Right now, a startling volume of tween culture is devoted, directly or indirectly, to puttin' on a show in the manner of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. It seems important to remember that things didn't work out too well for Judy in the long run.
