Word: broodingness
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A solipsistic imbalance distorts and threatens to destroy William T. Vollmann's brooding, idiosyncratic novel cycle, Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes. Corruption of native inhabitants by Europeans is the broad theme of this enormously ambitious project, and the first two volumes, The Ice-Shirt, about Greenland, and...
The stripped-down sound came only partly by design. "The day we were supposed to start recording, our equipment truck was late," Gibbons explains. He wound up jamming on a borrowed, primitive Fender Esquire guitar and a 1949 amplifier. The lyrics on Antenna also stick to the basics, concentrating on...
Life imitates art, sometimes, sort of. For example: when Peter Jefferies and Graeme Jefferies, two brooding, musical brother who had been in the same band for four years (and whose relationship was therefore at the proverbial Breaking Point) recorded In the Same Room in 1984, the album amounted to their...
True to form, Colwin's hero and heroine are just regular folk. They don't want to cause any trouble. Although carefully crafted, they certainly don't break the mold of characterization. Teddy plunges periodically into brooding funks stemming from the deep spring of childhood neglect and a broken family...
At Harvard, of course, we don't pretend. We wear academic misery with honor. There's something about this place--maybe the homely red brick, or first-year parties, or the aesthetics of the Leverett Towers--that turns even the most West-Coast-minded students into brooding New Englanders.