Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always been something of a schizophrenic affair. Within Grohl's songs there lurks a love for pop music that bubbles up in the middle of the usual hardcore barrage. The tension reached critical mass on The Colour and the Shape, which alternated between ripping throats and jerking tears. The break-neck changes in style between songs gave the album a brilliantly fractured feel but beat up the listener in the process. The divisiveness of the album only foreshadowed the real-life breakups just over the horizon. After losing two guitarists, a drummer and a record label in the past...
...Despite its frequent use of music, Good is not a musical. This use of music is simply one of the play's ingenious, innovative touches. The songs and symphonic pieces break up the monotony of Halder's long soliloquies, adding comic relief or exaggerating irony when necessary. As the play's events unfold, the music gradually becomes more serious to match the severity of Hitler's increasingly powerful position. Musical director John Baxindine '00 does an admirable job as band leader, and his three fellow musicians, prominently displayed at center stage, perform even the most intricate pieces with style...
...Lounge. Though the dark venue at first seemed to swallow the seated four-piece, they soon set an intimate mood with their introspective lyrics and friendly conversations between songs. The singer remarked after one ballad that "someone once told me that was the best song ever written about telephone break-ups." "Didn't you write that song about a long distance relationship?" asked the drummer. "Yeah, but I took it as a compliment anyway," came the sheepish reply...
...long-running Robert Winters, a Harvard math preceptor, and David Trumbull, the bow-tied token Republican, attempted once again to break into the ranks--and failed...
...strictly by the numbers, the Dems will have emptied a few more bottles: By the time the votes are all counted, they will have reaped a few nice rewards, eking out a victory in the Philadelphia mayoral race and forcing the Mississippi gubernatorial race to a tie-break vote in the Democratic-controlled statehouse. Democrats also took mayoral seats in the Republican strongholds of Columbus, Ohio, and Indianapolis...