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...ALBUM: ANGEL DUST...
...their third and latest album, Angel Dust, Faith No More's response is to rev up their guitar engines, crank the bass, drums and keyboards, and with a loud scream put the pedal to the metal and once again blaze their own road. Some of the songs are indeed catchy, but don't expect them to become Top 40 fodder, as neither the band's turbulent sound nor its acerbic wit has been sacrificed...
Love or loathe the album's characters, they are easily recognizable and convincingly presented -- everyone from the sweet-talking phony on Caffeine and the suffering farmer in Smaller and Smaller down to the drug-slinging kingpin in Crack Hitler. That's what makes Angel Dust poignant, blistering and nightmarishly real...
...NCAA rules restricting collegiate athletes to 20 hours of practice a week. Thompson is so fitness conscious that she "relaxes" from swimming with an aerobics workout. Nicole Haislett idolizes Arnold Schwarzenegger and often poses flexing her considerable biceps. There are even rumors of steroid use among U.S. women. One, Angel Martino, was banned for 16 months after testing positive for nandrolone at the 1988 U.S. team trials. Now she is back in the 50-m freestyle and maybe a relay...
...third opera shows a new direction. It is Prokofiev's little known The Fiery Angel, an overwrought vision of possession and sexual hysteria. A co- production with Covent Garden, it was directed as an arresting theater piece by British experimental director David Freeman. Freeman uses gymnasts as the devils who torment the heroine, having rehearsed them in concentrated, mesmerizing animal movements that quickly steal the spotlight from the singers. Trendy? Possibly. But the production maintains its musical balance as well...