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...radical an effect that the album can hardly be classified as rock. Only 5 of the 11 tracks qualify as songs. Bowie has shifted gears from singing to composing, and in his audio playpen of the latest electronic gadgets he has formulated an album of, not rock ballads, but cosmic tone poems. Unlike his earlier albums, the focus in Low is on environment rather than melody, on synthesized effects rather than traditional rock arrangements. The recording is impressive: textures are clear and sharply defined, bass tones are rich and highs are scintillating. Sound loses itself in the infinity of space...
...churning up oceans of milk. Lacking the energy to do so, they sought the help of their enemies, the demons, and offered them some of the nectar in return. When a jar of miraculous nectar finally appeared, the demons seized it and the gods pursued them. During the cosmic struggle, some drops from the jar of nectar fell at the sacred confluence and three other sites. Every twelve years, it is believed, the nectar returns to sweeten the waters...
...prime candidates for a killing. If one is treacherous, the other is brutal. The assassination at the end seems like unfair retribution because only one of them is on the receiving end. Mikey and Nicky should have been a movie about friend ship and betrayal and a kind of cosmic, comic stalemate. Its own helpless indulgence is not just the movie's undoing. It becomes, instead, its subject. Jay Cocks
...these areas constitute an important aspect of the Black experience. However, the Black scholar, in studying the humanities, must view them in the context of the political and economic situation of Black people. The arts are not "separate" from or "above" society--they derive their content not from some cosmic source, but from the society in which they operate. The scholar who does not recognize this merely renders him/herself less able to understand and deal with the social significance...
...light emanating from distant galaxies to calculate that the islands of stars are moving at tremendous speeds away from the earth−and from each other−like dots painted on the surface of an expanding balloon. To some scientists, this outward rush of the galaxies suggested an original cosmic explosion...