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...perfectly frank and forthright, we did despair. At times, we sobbed out loud. We tried to distract ourselves by going to fancy corporate affairs, but got kicked out for throwing croutons and shouting obscenities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diary of a Madman | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

...swum..." There's also a incongruously, startlingly cool falsetto bridge where head Egg Andrew Beaujon sounds exactly like Prince (with a temporarily funked-up backbeat to match). "Why Am I So Tired All the Time?" and "Evanston, IL" are quiet, slowly oscillating incarnations of post-teenage despair, as if a male lounge-jazz singer were suddenly infused with the authentic spirit of the late Joy Division. "Conchita," which I think is a plain old love song (though it's real hard to tell), does all the work of a classic Tin Pan Alley composition on only two chords...

Author: By Steve L. Burt, | Title: ONE CHORD WONDERS | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

...from the audience as they portray over-the-top derangement. All are good, and the two nuttiest -- Gary Whitaker, as the youth who comes to believe he is an alien, and Brenda Blethyn, as the neglected wife who regresses into toddlerhood -- rip open psychic dungeons to unleash dragons of despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Magic | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

Ayckbourn unleashes dragons of despair in Wildest Dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...better shot, convention holds, if they are boy toys with cute, catchy names like . . . Madonna. NdegeOcello spent two years trying to interest record companies in her iconoclastic music, a shotgun marriage of funk, jazz, hip-hop and angry poetry that she calls "brokenhearted revolutionary love songs." Finally, in despair and ready to enroll in barber school, she got a phone call, and a record deal, rom the head of Maverick, who happens to be . . . Madonna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhymes Of Passion | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

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