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5 Unhappy
8 Lovers' quarrel
12 Nautical hanger-on
14 Not pizzicato
15 Barbecue fuel
16 Tarzan's transportation
17 Qty.
18 Pictures
20 Chunk of cheese
23 Read bar codes
24 A Great Lake
25 Hire, as a boat
28 "— the season to be jolly"
29 Word with mouth or training
30 Solemn promise
32 Brown or Sheen
34 Darling
35 Swindle
36 Chicago, the — City
37 Dig up
40 Trigonometry ratio (Abbr.)
41 Cons' opponents
42 Entrancing
47 Relaxation
48 Coffee liqueur
49 Sight organs
50 Obama, before he became pres.
51 Shrill bark
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2 "That feels so good!"
3 Lingerie item
4 Anger
5 High-lander
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7 Fragile
8 Learned one
9 Overly proper one
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10 Dermatologist's case
11 "Piggies"
13 Pinnacle
19 Little lamb's owner
20 Sopping
21 Guitarist Clapton
22 Plate
23 Comic bit (Var.)
25 Gathers
26 Divisible by two
27 Highway
29 — and proper
31 Kind of wit
33 Mistreats
34 Unnerve
36 Apple invader
37 Duel tool
38 MRI fore-runner
39 Firetruck necessity
40 James of "Brian's Song"
43 Hasten
44 Rage
45 Zero
46 Space
Taylor Swift turns pop with 'Red'
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LOS ANGELES _ During the 13 months that Taylor Swift canvassed the globe on her 2011-12 “Speak Now” tour, she was joined onstage by a steady parade of celeb musician friends and admirers: Nicki Minaj and Justin Bieber in L.A., Usher in Atlanta, Brooks & Dunn's Ronnie Dunn in her home base of Nashville, Selena Gomez and James Taylor at Madison Square Garden in New York.
On the surface, the guest appearances were simply a bonus for fans, a little something to generate extra sparks, Twitter and water cooler buzz about those shows.
But the move seems to have had an unanticipated side effect on the star and her new album, "Red."
"I reached a moment in making this album where I just wanted to get into the studio with people who do things differently than I do and see how they do it," said Swift, 22, during a recent break in rehearsals in North Hollywood. "It was really more of an experience decision. I really never want to get stuck making the same album more than once."
The new alliances manifest in the big-beat pop chorus of the album's first single, "We Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together," which she wrote with Martin and Shellback, who produced it. The title track, her essay on a best-of-times, worst-of-times relationship, opens over a simple banjo accompaniment
"Red" Swift's fourth album, is an unapologetically big pop record that opens new sonic vistas for her thanks to collaborations with pop-world heavyweights including Max Martin and his frequent songwriting and production partner Shellback, Ed Sheeran, Jeff Bhaskar and Semisonic singer Dan Wilson. "Red" will be released worldwide Monday.
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but quickly kicks into rock overdrive with pounding drums and a throbbing bass line. The song "22" applies a strong dose of Auto-Tune to mechanize her vocal over what sounds like programmed electronic drums. And she's gained considerable attention for the peppery syncopated rhythms in "I Knew You Were Trouble" and the hints of dubstep she, Martin and Shellback weaved into her tale of yet another star-crossed romance.
With only the most fleeting traces of the country music with which she launched her career, the album creatively too takes her deeper into the pop world than "Speak Now," for which she proudly wrote all 14 songs single-handedly. It became the first album in more than 5 years to sell more than 1 million copies in its first week of release when it came out two years ago. It has since sold more than 4 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
On the floor of the rehearsal studio, Swift displays the same fire in the belly and intense drive that she exhibited at 17, shortly after the release of her 2006 debut album, "Taylor Swift." But there's a new authority in her voice, perhaps culled from her transition over the last half decade from a wide-eyed ingenee to one of the biggest pop stars of the new millennium.
More obvious to the outside world than all of that is the increasingly sophisticated and refined fashion sense she's developed as a top-rank model and cover girl. During the rehearsal she wore a casual knit long-sleeve sweater mini-dress with black and horizontal white pintripe, tan and brown stylized saddle shoes. The delicate gold chain around her left wrist was offset by girlish, turquoise blue nail polish. Her once curly blond hair was straight and pulled into an efficient, unfussy ponytail. The bangs scattered across her forehead
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Taylor Swift at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday, February 12, 2012. Swift is a six-time Grammy winner.
framed her delicate blue eyes.
"One of the things I'm proudest of is that I feel like every one of the three albums I've put out so far stand alone in one way or another," she said, sitting in a small room on the rehearsal hall. She'd been working with her seven-piece band and half a dozen dancers ahead of their VMA show performance of "We Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together," the first single off "Red" that recently brought Swift her first No. 1 hit on the Billboard 100 pop singles chart.
"This album does that too," she said. "The reason being that, with 'Speak Now,' it was really important for me to write every song on it myself. ... And for this album, it was really important for me to collaborate."
"I think the 24 guests she had on the 'Speak Now' tour really opened her mind to a lot of things," said Scott Borchetta, head of Big
Machine Records, the fledgling label he launched in 2006 and turned into one of the music business' rare 21st century success stories largely on the shoulders of a 15-year-old singer-songwriter he had signed named Taylor Swift. "It really opened her mind musically and sonically."
Swift might be two months shy of 23, but she's spent half her life writing songs, and the last eight of those doing it professionally, having landed a songwriting contract with Sony/ ATV Music when she was just 14. With "Speak Now" she set a record for the most songs by one artist to debut in the Billboard 100 pop singles chart in the same week: 10, all of which she wrote herself. She was just 20 when she was honored for her songwriting by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the publishing rights organization, with its Hal David Starlight Award.
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'Duck Dynasty a family affair
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When viewers flip the channel to A&E, and see a family sporting camouflage and preaching hillbilly proverbs, it means the beards have returned. The T.V. show "Duck Dynasty" follows the adventures of the Robertson family. This family of hunters became multi-millionaires after founding the company Duck Commander, what they claim is one of the best duck calls on the market.
The show focuses on three different generations of the Robertson family: Phil, the patriarch and founder of the company; his wife Miss Kay; his brother Si; Phil and Miss Kay's sons Willie, Jase, and Jep, along with their wives and children.
Luke McElwain, a freshman from Overland Park, has watched the show since it started. He said he continues to watch because of
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"They claim to be one of the best ones made, but pretty much every call company claims this," he said. "It is really about preference, and I prefer a certain product."
Duck Dynasty airs on Wednesdays at 9 p.m.
Green-winged Teal, a type of duck, takes part in the spring migration at the Antioch Wetlands.
the things the family does while hunting, such as trying to get fresh honey by sucking the bees from the hive with a long shop-vac — something that failed miserably.
"Rednecks and money always equal hours of entertainment," he said. "Plus, most of the things that I see them doing, my friends and I would try ourselves"
McElwain said his favorite character is Willie, the current CEO of the company. In one of the recent episodes, Willie grapples with the idea that his daughter has a boyfriend and decides to take him hunting to get to know him. Before the trip, Willie says, "Nothing makes me happier than a smile on my daughter's face and fear in her boyfriend's eyes."
However, although Pladies watches the show, he does not use the Duck Commander duck call.
"He always tries to get the guys to focus on working, but he always ends up getting sucked into whatever they were doing," he said. "My
favorite thing he did was taking his daughter's boyfriend out hunting. I could see myself doing the same thing if I have a daughter."
Josh Pladies, a freshman from Silver Lake, has also watched the show from its start and is an avid duck and goose hunter. Pladies said his favorite character is Si, a Vietnam war veteran with a wicked sense of humor.
-Edited by Christy Khamphilay