Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First day of gun season: sky lowering gray, trees like dark iron. Pickups tucked in the bushes along dirt roads. Men, bulky with layers under hunter's fluorescent orange, have slipped into the forest and up the ridge. Now and then from the interior, a dull, concussive...
...regard to the incident and the punishment, Paoli admitted he is somewhat in the dark. He said all of his information has been obtained through conversations with his players and that none of it has come from the athletic department...
Universal had hoped to grab its share of the family audience with Babe: Pig in the City, the much anticipated sequel to its 1995 sleeper hit, Babe. But even before arriving in theaters, the new Babe has taken a sudden turn down a dark alley. Last week Universal took the perhaps unprecedented step of canceling a star-studded premiere of the film. The studio said it canceled the Los Angeles event, which was to have been a benefit for the Children's Defense Fund, because the talking-animal special effects weren't done. But that was, well, double-talk...
...such vintage pop songs as "Lovefool," I never expected her fiery onstage performance. Bristling with sexuality in her skin-tight leather pants, Persson sang with harnessed intensity and a flirtatious half-smile, as if her very appearance were a wicked, illicit joke between her and the audience. For the dark, menacing songs about the hardness of love that she presented, the coy, harsh delivery was like a sucker punch; she could talk about love's cruel ways not because she was the injured lover, but because she was the cruelty of love in the flesh...
...searing interpretation of their new song "Paralyzed." Like debris from the factory of the next millennium, the song burst with a rumbling electronic landscape and apocalyptic guitar chords. Other songs, like the guitar-driven "Erase/Rewind" and the ethereal "Higher," were transformed by this ominous aesthetic into manifestoes of the dark, as Persson's voice became barbed and deceptive. Even "Lovefool," the classic, buoyant paean to romantic masochism, was edged with rougher guitars and a surprising growl from Persson, pronouncing the deeper power dynamics that were unexpressed in the original recording. The Cardigans got a brand...