Word: bond
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stevens cannot direct this anger, for it permeates the town of Sam Dent. The children united the town through a sense of community. Without the bond provided by the children, the dark secrets of the San Dent are revealed. The tiny town recalls the isolated communities imagined by David Lynch, where normalcy masks taboos such as incest and adultery...
...into a cover of "That's When I Reach For My Revolver," it could have been Clint Conley and Mission of Burma playing the song in '83. Mission of Burma covers are nothing new, but when the band follows up one by ripping through a cover of the "James Bond Theme," sounding just as serious, something strange is going on. And when the performer is best known for producing euphoric house music, you know it's not an ordinary show...
...Moby's mind, though, nothing mixes so well with the ecstasy culture as punk. As he plunged into "That's When I Reach For My Revolver," the dancers began to pogo. While an odd mix, it worked; the following Bond theme progressed from speed metal to pounding funked-up house. Not content with this excursion into rock, Moby decided that the show needed a guitar solo, and noodled for a couple of minutes. The crowd was variously amused and disgusted; some were upset that they'd been tricked into watching Def Leppard-style musical onanism. The pounding techno soon resumed...
Although James Bond was never one to be coy or reserved, the claim that his agent ship is secret becomes an increasingly ridiculous assertion with the advent of each new film. The bad guys in each movie must all have flunked out of elementary bad guy school, where dealing with James Bond is a more important part of the curriculum than even sections devoted to Superman and proper income tax return techniques. They were most assuredly all absent the day The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was shown and Eli Wallach's priceless gem of wisdom was studied: "When...
FORTUNE Business Report gives you the skinny on the day?s trading. Monday: The first day of real trading in the new year finds plenty of action on the bond market...