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...melodic shift that could be on the soundtrack of “Garden State” for its over-the-top effort to elicit emotion. Despite its obvious goal, “Myth Takes” is not so much hit or miss as either dance-commanding or mildly acrid. That’s the catch of looping disco-punk beats, after all, but it doesn’t mean that !!! failed: when they do it right, “Myth Takes” is absolutely perfect for washing the chirping of Kevin Barnes out of your system, even though...
...week, he also lived its essence. Sometimes when his mother told the story, her partner was George Raft, sometimes it was George Burns. "I heard it twisted around so many ways," he says. "It could have been Rudolph Valentino." Nonetheless, the poignant sweetness of her recollections and the faintly acrid aftertaste of his own uneasy detachment flavored Simon's adolescence. As he rose during adulthood from deprivation to celebrity, creating hit TV shows, then dozens of gag-laden Broadway shows and jauntily comic movies, he thought from time to time of writing candidly about his mother and even about that...
...Green Zone the following morning, I saw the otherworldly experience of those who live and work in a section of the city hermetically sealed off from the chaos outside. The air-conditioned offices of the press center were cool, efficient and orderly, making the noise, heat and acrid stench of car exhaust throughout Baghdad seem a thousand miles away. The officers on hand processed my credentials quickly and easily, and joked around with my bodyguard...
...snapped pictures with cell-phone cameras. The still-smoldering lunar craters of what used to be residential blocks were now filled with a parade of people, scrambling over the concrete slabs and broken widow panes, as if participants in some mass funeral procession, choking on dust and that special acrid smell that comes from burnt buildings. In some areas, rescue crews were still looking for bodies...
...plume of acrid smoke is drifting eastward after a huge explosion rocked the Buncefield oil depot in Hemel Hempstead, 20 miles northwest of London, at 6:03 a.m. local time Sunday. The blast was heard more than 50 miles away. Windows and doors were blown out and walls were cracked in nearby houses, whose residents have been evacuated by police. ?Keep out of the flume, keep away from the area,? said Frank Whiteley, Chief Constable of Hertfordshire police, in a hastily called press conference. He also warned that some smaller explosions might occur later today as other tanks...