Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COMMERCIAL begins with a long-distance camera shot of a lonely student in a library. He appears to be studying, but closer inspection reveals another aspect of life troubles this youth, who now stares off into space. The camera picks up a list he has written, titled. "What to do--summer...
What a Life! is the second album from the Australian band Divinyls. Their music is claimed to form a synthesis of punk and pop. Singer Christina Amphlett manages to prove marginally successful in this endeavor, though the sound is generally much closer to pop than to punk...
...disk itself is a typical example of pseudo-punk synth-pop. "Motion" moves nicely, and the apocalyptyic "Guillotine Day," among other tracks, finds Amphlett attempting to mimic ex-Sex Pistol John Lydon. The result, however, is far closer to a Pat Benatar rehash than something new. Lyrics again center on love and relationships, and are generally rather mundane...
...think I'm getting a little closer to my big sister. She and my father got in an argument last night. It was 4 in the morning. I got up and went into her room. I said, 'Don't listen to him because he's stupid. He doesn't understand...
When Alberto Nunez returned to the remains of his home near the devastated town of Armero last week, he was startled to see smoke curling from the earthen hut of one of his neighbors, Maria Rosa Elvira Echeverry, 66. A closer look revealed a miracle. Twenty-four days after mudslides triggered by the volcanic eruption of Nevado del Ruiz had laid waste to the town and killed 23,000 people, there was Echeverry, safe and relatively sound, in her partially mud-covered house. She had survived on a diet of cracked barley, raw sugar and rice...