Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great from the start. The basic GBV sound is 1967 British pop filtered through basement-tape-recorder grime, and within its confines they're the best, and the most versatile, there is. Each of their seven albums includes vocal harmonies from Revolverera Beatles, scattered outbreaks of pure punk, flat despair, soaring hopes, noises like ovens exploding (immediately followed by familiar hooks), wisps of pot smoke over seaswell chords, and half-audible, countrified laments. Occasionally you'll find all these elements together in one song...
Keenan's kit includes paradox and irony. "In the most inhuman of circumstances men grow and deepen in humanity," he writes. "In the face of death but not because of it, they explode with passionate life, conquering despair with insane humour." For the better part of his lost 4 1/2 years, Keenan's straight man was the British television journalist John McCarthy...
...relentlessly the refugee numbers increase. When two trucks with 200 more evacuees arrive, officials are close to despair. "These are the last we can receive," says Maria de Conceicao Araujo, who heads Malanje's social-welfare effort. "The local people don't have enough to eat." Yet Malanje is more fortunate than other enclaves. Kuito, the besieged capital of Bie province, has not seen one foreign aid delivery since January...
...bluesy instrumental, in conjunction with the inspirational lyrics, makes "I Will Survive" a landmark in the landscape of musical empowerment. So on those late nights when you're seeking the solace of Room 13, save yourself the walk. Instead, listen to Gaynor's hit and your world of despair and heartache will suddenly blossom into a thriving disco kingdom of multicolored lights and smooth leisure suits...
...THIS is good! Whaddayathink? An AIDS drama based on that bestseller, And the Band Played On. Drama! Ya' know, tears and deathbeds, good guys and bad guys, hope and despair ...now gimme a minute...I know that CBS Rock Hudson movie flopped bigtime, and I know the gaything can be bad PR, but look, the book sold millions, and we all know the gaything is VERY profitable these days. With the gaysinthemilitarything and all the talk of rightsandshit, everyone and their mom's into the gaything. It's a goldmine, if ya' ask me. Hold on. Here's the scoop...