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...elements of HEALTH’s style: a mix of elaborate, heavy synths with drums and guitar, buried androgynous vocals and an industrial feel that is reminiscent of Trent Reznor. The industrial influence ads color musically, but it fails to provide thematic depth. The album is steeped in monotonously dark imagery; take for further evidence the songs entitled “Severin” and “Eat Flesh.” What the record needs is a little lightness, a relief from its overbearing gloom. The unyielding, pounding percussion only reinforces the prevailing theme. The album?...
Some are more discrete, hosting sample sales in dark industrial buildings in Manhattan and using invitation-only third-party websites, such as brandalley.com, gilt.com, and billiondollarbabes.com, to sell excess inventory at heavily discounted prices...
Strolling through the Yard this morning, Flyby noticed what appeared to be many, many dark brown nuggets of feces strewn all over the grass—almost as if a flock of migrating geese had decided that John Harvard's turf was ideal for defecating on, and then took to spreading the joy through the Yard in nice, straight lines...
...succeed. If he fails, we all fail." Of the Democratic Party: "I don't know personally a single Democrat who is a dope-smoking hippie that wants to turn us into Soviet Russia." Of the civic duty to trust: "We've got to pull together, because we are facing dark, dark times. I don't trust a single weasel in Washington. I don't care what party they're from. But unless we trust each other, we're not going to make...
...shoulders shudder, Paddy Chayefsky, the great leftist playwright, looks like a prophet. He's the man who coined the phrase that, according to Luntz, is the rare thing Americans can agree on. He gave the line to Howard Beale, the mad anchorman at the center of the dark satire Network...