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...last Friday to face charges of violating a new Michigan law that makes assisting suicides a crime. He went limp rather than post bond and had to be dragged out by the arms, his legs scraping the floor. "I won't eat," he vowed. Like a one-man Greek chorus, his lawyer intoned, "We are now beginning the death watch...
...signals that business is not going to be conducted as usual. Carlito, like most reform-minded hoods, has a naive vision of the honest life. He hopes to buy into a car-rental agency. He also hopes to rekindle his old flame, Gail (Penelope Ann Miller), once a respectable chorus girl, now working topless in a go-go club...
Tripping Daisy reaches a little further with "Change of Mind," which features a nice guitar line to open the song, and a semi-psychedelic, echoing quality to DeLaughter's vocals. The chorus harmonies add a lilting sound to the song, which fits surprisingly well with the underlying guitar, and only the occasionally stupid lyrics ("Little Jack Horner sitting in a corner") get in the way of enjoying the song...
...black pen, as if the band wanted people to focus more on its music and less on its charismatic star. The music's fine (and the stardom must get annoying), but it's Kathleen Hanna's singing that sets this record apart. "Don't need you" was a catchy chorus from the last Bikini Kill disc, Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah. But by now, if you like punk rock at all, you ought to know that you need to hear...
...audience, and the race to keep up does get tiresome towards the latter half of the second act. Fortunately however, Levin, keen to an audience's limited capacity to watch and process a bullet-paced thriller, allows for extensive monologues in which characters, like members of a Greek chorus, meticulously recall events twist for twist...