Word: blackened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wake of their first experimental album Polydistortion, GusGus emerges more enchanting than before. Having already established a reputation for flair and soulful character, the band returns exploring new territory. Lyrical fantasies resonate throughout "Ladyshave," exuding lusty thoughts and twisted sexual melodies. Surging words about bleak promises and misplaced trust blacken ideas of foolish admiration in "Starlovers." "Love vs Hate" contains all of five words, but the pulsating dance music is stylish and sophisticated. This Is Normal has an added feature for wannabe deejays and tired listeners--the ability to remix the album's songs on your own computer. Electronic beats...
...didn't blacken, nor the moon turn red, but the world did come to an end, just as their prophet had promised. The End drove up in a tank, spitting gas, fulfilling prophecies. And if anyone wants to harm them, says the Book of Revelation, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes...
...disease that threatens to render you unrecognizable to yourself. Physically, you realize, the disease will slowly erode your body to an incontinent mass of uncontrollable jerks and twitches. Mentally, it will eat away at your brain cells, impeding your ability to remember, pay attention, reason. And emotionally, it will blacken your days with irritability and all-consuming depression. Worst of all, you know that the disease cannot be prevented or stalled, arrested or cured. To learn that you have the offending gene is to receive a virtual death sentence that leaves only two questions unanswered: When will the nightmare begin...
...though, the marginal players of the debate dominate the national discussion of abortion. The murderers of doctors who perform abortions hardly advance their cause by committing sins in the name of sainthood; their sick attempt to thwart abortion only serves to harden the resolve of pro-choice activists and blacken the image of pro-life workers. To a lesser degree, the esteem of ultra-feminist groups is lowered when abortion is touted as a privilege rather than a last and most desperate resort...
Mottahedeh and his allies, Afrasiabi contends, intended to blacken his reputation but did not expect the case to go to trial...