Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is something to be said for being picked on at school, or being distraught, or being a troublemaker. The weird kid who talks too loudly, the dark, despondent brooder and the uncontrollable class clown are the characters that spice up daily life and open our eyes to the variety of human personalities...
...anyone should listen to this album and not their 60s triumphs. They out-Stoned the Stones. Unfortunately, both of these bands are still around. The Stones have sucked for a good long time, but the Pretty Things remained blessedly silent after 1980. Until now. They are all on the dark side of 50 now and it is to their credit that low, low quality of the music here probably cannot be blamed on their age. If the album had lived half-way up to one brilliant proposed title, "Fuck Oasis and Fuck You," I wouldn't be able to recommend...
...other portraits, Wols uses dark shadows and flat planes to occlude the subjects' faces. But in Nicole Bouban, he strips the face of its conventional revelatory implications without resorting to heavy-handed assaults on the planes of her beauty...
...Chemistry department barbecues weekly over the summer, when many concentrators endure the humidity to conduct research. Otherwise students must organize their own events, a task made a little easier by the concentrators' e-mail network. The chemistry library in Converse cheers any orgo problem set session with dark wood Harvardian charm...
NIGHT TRADING If you're sick of online-trading outages, just wait until dark. Last week Discover Brokerage said that come this summer, it will offer extended Net trading hours, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. (E.T.), letting retail investors react to late-breaking news the same way institutions do. Wit Capital has similar plans. Just be aware that since the trading volume after-hours is lower, price volatility can increase...