Word: decays
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...thinking behind the 10 songs on Roberts' latest release, Chemical City, out on Tuesday, is urban decay. If that sounds heavy, fear not: the CD features much of the cool, '70s-style guitar work fans will remember from Roberts' last album and the smash single of 2002, Brother Down. Chemical City is great summer music: catchy, energetic, never abrasive...
...glaciers, it turns out, can move with surprising speed, and so can nature. What few people reckoned on was that global climate systems are booby-trapped with tipping points and feedback loops, thresholds past which the slow creep of environmental decay gives way to sudden and self-perpetuating collapse. Pump enough CO2 into the sky, and that last part per million of greenhouse gas behaves like the 212th degree Fahrenheit that turns a pot of hot water into a plume of billowing steam. Melt enough Greenland ice, and you reach the point at which you're not simply dripping meltwater...
...four plays: “Fuck life.” While the plays were discomfiting, they were all interesting, even when it was hard to know exactly what to make of them. They hung together surprisingly well, partially because they all dealt with themes of loss, isolation, decay, and circularity, and partially because the transitions between plays were seamless, to the extent that nobody clapped after the first or third plays because it was difficult to pinpoint the moment that the first play became the second and the third the fourth. While the performances were universally strong, some effects...
...successful in my career? Sometimes we need a push to leave what we are doing and find something that we can be more successful at. But a focus on individual ambition and financial success is not healthy. If we ignore civility and empathy, we only exacerbate social decay. Our role models should be those whose ambition and success brought about the betterment of the whole society, not just themselves. Robert Pitts, Jr. San Ramon, California...
Like Aronofsky, Huizenga also deals with love, and the desire to make it last in the face of inevitable decay and death. In a pair of related stories Ganges sits at home with his wife. In the first, they get into a discussion of the Beatle's song "She's Leaving Home," which Wendy feels is "lame," but Glenn defends as touching. Though the debate centers on a song about a child leaving her parents, the idea of being elderly and alone suddenly causes Wendy to burst into tears. Later, in the second vignette, Glenn lies next to his sleeping...