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Article: CD REVIEW: Pearl Jam acts its age, still

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(The Daily Iowan) (U-WIRE) IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The art of CD reviewing is as old as avarice, ladies and gentlemen. It is as delicate as spiderwebs, as calculated as chess. It is a wrestling between black and white, words and white space. This thing we do is not easy, easier even not than the genesis of the albums we evaluate. So, without further blahdiblah, introducing my most current chapter of my bloated oeuvre, "Riot Act: A CD Review."

THE LEDE

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