Word: clashingly
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Nevertheless, we offer an expression of relief that Watt did not err even more gravely than he did in selecting a replacement band. After all, he might have tapped the Clash to play cuts from their popular album Sandinista, a move that would surely have incurred the dangerous wrath of United Nations Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, who has never been that particular group of Central American rebels' most devoted band that calls itself the Dead Kennedys (best known for its rendition of "Kill the Poor"), thereby annihilating the White House's already troubled efforts to patch up relations with...
...gives you a more dominant, primitive look. We dress like this because in a lot of ways people expect us to. The whole principle in rapping is to be No. 1." Flash and the Five learned a fast lesson in fashion and stereotype when they opened for the Clash in May 1981. The crowd was all downtown, mostly white and heavily new wave, and booed the boys when they showed up in their flashy stage duds. The next night, when they wore street clothes onstage, the group was more warmly received...
...nowhere as servants sprinkle the grappling bodies with red glitter. The ploy only adds a dash of Saturday Night Fever to an already macabre event. And the updating is not uniform throughout. Sudden bursts of gunshots in the final scenes startle an audience grown used to the clash of swords. In duelling scenes, digital watches glint on the wrists of saber-holding swashbucklers...
...Soviet Union, an individual can sing two melodies simultaneously. That has wonderful possibilities. Might one cross in the Tuvinian mind two simultaneous numbers, like, say, Bing Crosby's Mississippi Mud ("It's a treat to beat your feet.. .") with Rock the Casbah by the Clash? Would the Tuvinian stay sane if that happened...
...taking itself seriously, Starstruck makes the current gult of new wave films look positively silly. From the stumbling lines and stagy acting of the Clash's Rude Boy to the slick but soulless Smithereens, the punk "message" film takes a deserved beating at the hands of its sendup. Having reached the likes of "Quincy," "60 Minutes" and Hollywood, New Wave is old hat, and somebody ought to be laughing...