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Take, for instance, “Flash Delirium,” the closest the album has to a single. Released a few weeks ago as a free download, like many of the tracks on “Congratulations,” it is a smorgasbord of styles. At one moment it seems like the successor to the synthpop groove of “Time to Pretend,” but within seconds it shifts to a guitar melody with a heavy walking bassline, eventually arriving at an atmospheric conglomeration of multiple vocal lines and ringing synths. During the song?...
Aciman is attempting to pin down the feeling of imminent loss; the moment of insane delirium one feels while balancing on the edge of a precipice. For Proust, that loss surrounds mortality and the desire to mentally ward it off at all costs; for the narrator, it is simply a question of “lying low” and warding off the cruelty of lovers. Yet the protagonist and Clara, caught in their self-involved and unspectacular web of emotions, are too banal for Aciman’s trick to work, and the protagonist’s dense, slogging...
...Street (now Jalan Medan Merdeka Selatan, home to banks and the U.S. embassy) for satay money. Before that, they doze in a corner of the square popular with "shadows of the night" like Aminah, a prostitute from the lurid tale "News from Kebajoran." She dies in a fit of delirium on a cold concrete bench nearby. How ironic, then, that a statue of Raden Kartini, the women's-rights advocate whose biographer Pram would later become, now stands in the square...
...Starting Today”; it is in this atmosphere of new beginnings that the audience is initially introduced to the characters. The music is cheerful and catchy throughout the play, but the lightheartedness is much more prevalent in the first act, capturing the novelty and the delirium of new experiences that dominate that first year of college.The actors, as college students themselves, possess a natural ease with which they play their, at first, stereotypical roles. There is the timid Tenley, her outspoken and party-hopping roommate Parker, the prideful Claire, her clingy sidekick Reese, nerdy and lanky Paul, self-absorbed...
...fourth power play of the game—after Harvard was penalized for too many skaters on the ice—Stewart found Gersten open on the right wing. From distance, the defenseman smashed the puck through a crowded goalmouth and past the glove of junior goaltender Christina Kessler.Cue delirium amongst the RPI bench and fans; cue devastation amongst the Crimson players so near but yet so far from victory.“You have to let [the players] go through the process of being disappointed and dissatisfied and see what comes out of the dust—you can?...