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From the ethereal melodies to the beats layered upon beats, The Eraser is full of Radiohead music--dark, dystopian, oddly beautiful--minus the other members of Radiohead. (It was composed mostly on a laptop.) In spots, the band is missed. The Clock creates some grinding tension but never figures out how to release it, while Black Swan eddies around a chorus ("This is f___ed up, f___ed up") that hardly mines new emotional territory. You can sense Yorke's grasping for something, and with the help of producer Nigel Godrich, who oversaw Beck's midcareer-crisis record, Sea Change...
...committed suicide after alleging that Tony Blair had oversold the case for war in Iraq--creating a portrait of anger and futility that's overwhelmingly sad. More often than not, though, Yorke speaks for, and to, himself. On Atoms for Peace, he sings, "No more going to the dark side with your flying saucer eyes ... No more talk about the old days, it's time for something great." The Eraser isn't--but by distilling Radiohead into something intimate, it may point the way toward greatness to come...
...cozy, too. "I thought of the things you enjoy when you stay with friends," says Hunter, "swhether it's the little touches they put in your room, a great meal or a cold drink on the terrace." Guest rooms are tastefully opulent: plush pink, red and orange fabrics, modern dark-oak furniture, Egyptian cotton sheets and bespoke artwork. But the details feel like home: a chess set on the table, candles by the bathtub, books you might actually read and a welcome bag with a little rubber duck inside. If you can pull yourself away from the Bang & Olufsen entertainment...
...actors’ performances. Lighting plays an ingenious dramatic role and is crucial to the play’s finale. The aesthetic choices, from Lucy’s blackboard to Snoopy’s doghouse, form colorful geometric patterns, which are only enhanced by the set’s dark backgrounds. There are serious flaws, including a pit band that drowns out much of the cast’s singing, but they are too few and too sporadic to mar the production. During intermission, while I asked a producer some questions about the arrangements, a member of the audience inquired...
...parents of Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold have often been portrayed as disengaged from the lives of their sons and unaware of the dark paths lying ahead. But 936 pages of evidence taken from the killers' homes and cars were released by the Jefferson County Sheriff's office on Thursday, and a notebook kept by Eric's father, Wayne, details a parent's involvement in his child's downward spiral. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999. They then killed themselves...