Word: breakthroughs
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...April 15, the Marines in Mahmudiyah achieved a small breakthrough. Two captured rebels pointed the Marines to the location of a group of insurgents and an arms cache. Pantano's platoon set out for the targets, two large compound-style Iraqi houses, just off a highway. As the Marines approached one of the houses, a car sped away. The Marines shot out the tires, and Pantano arrived with his command element--a Navy corpsman and a radio operator--to check...
...White” lives up to its early promise, however. After “Blonde,” Subtle seem content to slip back into the intermittent mediocrity that keeps many of their Anticon cousins frustratingly out of the privileged pantheon of underground hip hop breakthrough stars (the major exceptions being Slug and former Deep Puddle Dynamics member/slam poet Sage Francis). The opening of “F.K.O.” sounds suspiciously like an overplayed insurance commercial, and mostly instrumental exercises “The Hook” and “Eyewash,” while pleasant enough...
...stage a coup against Tsar Nicholas I in 1825. That brand of exotic, obscure, and only-half-serious historical reference has come to define the work of the band, from their 2002 Five Songs EP (which, in trademark cheeky Decemberists fashion, was comprised of six songs), through their two breakthrough LPs, Castaways and Cutouts and Her Majesty the Decemberists, both released in 2003, and into their most recent release, 2004’s single-song 20-minute epic of an EP, The Tain...
...Vega's breakthrough role came in 2001's Lucía y el Sexo (Sex and Lucía), in which she plays a luminous, besotted lover. Thinking her boyfriend has died in an accident, she travels to his favorite island where she uncovers a secret about his past. Her performance - tender, impassioned and real - won her a Goya award (Spain's Academy Award) for best new actress. Her early career had its memorable nude scenes, but it was Vega's ability to inject her characters with a fiery sensuality that kept Spanish eyes on her. Moments like...
...Although no departure from their core sound, and certainly not a disappointment to old fans, The Great Destroyer, which Low released in January, has a different feel to it than many of their past albums. Coming after a whirlwind near-breakup followed by a breakthrough opening for Radiohead, Destroyer presents some novel sounds for the band, making equal use of melody, silence and reverb-driven dissonance. Still, it is very much a Low album, and the brief moments of near-convention fit perfectly with the extended silences and moping harmonies that make up the rest. There seems...