Word: darkeness
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...earlier work. The album seems to aspire to the grand populism of arena rock, but it loses the catchy hooks and grab-your-head lyrics that popped out of “Mysterious Production.” For example, even though the song “Dark Matter” begins with whistling that’s Bird-ish, it bursts into guitar crescendos and epic sonics that seem plucked straight from U2’s “Joshua Tree.” Consider him a revisionist, not a plagiarist. Bird’s music often complements a simple...
...strongly of cheese" is not quite capturing it; it is as if the air comprises nothing but swirling molecules of brie and stilton, violently bombarding your person like so many solar particles. Arrayed on the shelves, in perfect storage conditions, are golden wheels whose names speak of rainswept farms, dark cellars and expense: Ardrahan Large, Innes Log, Stinking Bishop, Ticklemore Goat. If you want to make a meal of it right there and then, you can pull up a chair and choose a bottle of wine-not in the walk-in cabinet itself, but at a large communal dining table...
Even men who cannot afford couture prices want to look more like Daniel Craig or Sean (Diddy) Combs than a casual-Friday holdover from the 1990s. "People want to dress up now," says Jarret Kerman, director of clothing at Ermenegildo Zegna Couture. "Our best-selling suits are in dark, dressy fabrics." He adds that Zegna Couture, with the price of an average suit running from $3,200 to $4,000, has been growing exponentially in the past few seasons, its wholesale business quadrupling in the past year...
...Arctic and Antarctic. As polar climates warm enough for trees to move in, the color of that part of the earth will change, as viewed from above. Green trees, which absorb more light, will replace whiter snow and ice, which reflect more rays back to space. Like a dark-colored car hood on a hot day, a dark-colored earth will warm. The group’s computer modeling experiments show that the localized warming due to the change in the earth’s surface reflectivity (called its “albedo”) would be greater than...
...SHOT IN THE DARK...