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...songs evoke smog-choked vistas, the scourge of aids and the bloodless wounds of love -- all presented as symptoms of a universal malaise. On Sex Kills, sirens echo ominously behind an insistent beat as Mitchell sings, "The ulcerated ozone/ These tumors of the skin/ This hostile sun beatin' down on/ This massive mess we're in! ... And sex sells everything/ And sex kills." The album title, Mitchell says, "refers to the turbulent blues of this warring, frenzied climate that we live in, riddled with plagues and wars and divisionalism." This sense of chaos struck home with the dissolution...
...Crimson prepares to face off withthe more serious ECAC contenders, the skepticswill sit back and watch. If Harvard comes out ofupstate New York undefeated, many skeptics will besilenced. Harvard will still be the team to beatin the ECAC...
...School Days and Johnny B. Goode, but teens knew that his songs -- from the opening guitar riff through the four-on-the-floor chorus to the florid finale -- were siren calls to cut class and feel good. "You know my temperature risin', the jukebox blowin' a fuse,/ My heart beatin' rhythm and my soul keep a-singin' the blues./ Roll over Beethoven. Tell Tchaikovsky the news...
...moves in on her son's face, his honest, decent, heartbreakingly beautiful face, and he replies, "I'll be ever'where-wherever you look. Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' on a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad-an' I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready...
...movie of the same name. Troubled atmosphere comes across. Gaye has regressed since his "Trouble Man" success, putting out the trashy single and album "Let's Get It On": "Ain't gonna push, push you baby, so come on, come on, come on, come on, come on darlin', stop beatin' 'round the bush...