Word: clamoring
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...regrettably brief concert ended with an encore cover of Ozzy Osbourne's "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" replete with wailing guitars and a three minute code of distorted power chords. The fans seemed dazed, but not unimpressed. Even those who came for the kitsch stayed for the clamor. This wasn't the Cardigans of "Lovefool," but the confidence of this heavier aesthetic was winning. Johansson proclaimed, "People may think we are trying to get more commercial, but we don't make music for a special kind of audience. We make music for ourselves, and we wanted this sound. Lots of violence." Loud...
...clouds her haunting, oftenstartlingly beautiful melodies. "Front Row" thefirst track, is a surprisingly insipid start tothe album. Trying to muster resentment, she offersus a long stream-of-consciousness account of lovegone wrong. Words pile on words as the standardchorus is layered with dense sub-vocals thatslowly collapse into indecipherable clamor. Thesong turns out to be a mish-mash of etherealchattiness rather than a compelling introduction...
Strong argues that most self-mutilating behavior is a reaction to sexual or physical abuse, during childhood or adolescence. People, young women especially, who are violated in this manner feel out of control of their own emotions and bodies. Harming themselves is a way to respond to the clamor of emotions inside. After cutting, as Strong puts it, "they have moved from a place of passive helplessness to active control...
...Amidst the apocalyptic clamor surrounding the millennium, this six-week series represents a modest attempt to slow the pace of celebration and anxiety," said Ann Pellegrini '86, assistant professor of English. "En route to the 21st century, we ask how women and gender might help us to think and enact the future with a feminist critical difference...
Fighting continued through the spring and summer, with little action from the international community until this fall, when observers began to clamor for NATO air strikes to counter reports of Serbian atrocities...