Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...perhaps this is too harsh or uncharitable an assessment; perhaps it doesn’t allow for an evolving sound or an evolving musical vision; perhaps it isn’t fair to expect a band to cling unflinchingly to the musical mores of their formative career. Indeed, these are important considerations, but change at what cost? In the estimation of many devoted fans, Bennet’s departure comes as a dear loss to Wilco’s nuanced sound and is a change for the worse...
...love Rudy. In this I'm not alone. He walks around the city as godlike as a mortal can be. The families of the fallen cling to him. Workers pulling grim double shifts at ground zero get a second wind when he visits. At opening night at the Metropolitan Opera, he gets an ovation Pavarotti would envy. He brings David Letterman to tears and a Saturday Night Live audience to life, telling people it's O.K. to laugh again...
...neither with you [nor] with terrorists," as the crowd chanted "Death to America" for the first time since the Sept. 11 atrocities. Iran's mercurial response to the American effort to build a global coalition against terrorism highlights the country's internal struggle between hard-liners who cling to anti-Western ideology and reformers who want to open Iran to the world. For the most part, this debate has raged in the Iranian press and parliament. But as the U.S. forms new alliances with old enemies in the wake of the attacks, Iran's domestic politics have taken on international...
...sleeve of the CD—an appropriate visual preface to the cushy listening experience that one is about to abide. The album’s opening gesture, “For the Moment” reflects languishingly on past and unrequited love affairs: “But I cling to you for survival / And I know that you are my Bible.” Moderately distorted, muted, heavily punctuated guitar work embraces a delayed lead guitar line; double kick drumming outlines a simple but conspicuously slow tempo, and the crash symbol weaves the disparate strands together. These...
...love Rudy. In this I'm not alone. He walks around the city as godlike as a mortal can be. The families of the fallen cling to him. Workers pulling grim double shifts at ground zero get a second wind when he visits. At opening night at the Metropolitan Opera, he gets an ovation Pavarotti would envy. He brings David Letterman to tears and a Saturday Night Live audience to life, telling people it's O.K. to laugh again...