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...songs do vary quite a bit--songwriter Martin Gore is a whiz at varying themes. In one two-disc set we have: moody angst, angry angst, depressed angst, hopeless angst, lusty angst and the ever-popular violent angst. Yes, violent--most of Depeche Mode's songs are depressing, but one song, "Stripped," is fiercely so. In "Stripped," Gore seems to have taken a cue from Trent Reznor, and has penned such harsh lyrics as "Let me see you stripped down to the bone" and "Let me hear you crying just for me." Didn't know Depeche Mode...

Author: By Eliot Schrefer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Decade of Depeche: Rarely In Fashion | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

Ironically, Beck only recovers the exhilaratingintensity of Odelay on the energetic bonusmusic hidden at the end of the disc, whererockabilly folk, distorted guitars, space-agesynthesizers and percussive clutter suddenlyconverge into startling vividness, the first ofBeck's mutations of rock on the album truly tolive and breathe...

Author: By Jared S. White, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beck's Post-Success Stress | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

They didn't. Late last Friday night, while still recovering from surgery in London for a herniated disc, Pinochet, 82, was awakened by police and told that he was under arrest. A Spanish court, which has been trying Pinochet in absentia for allegedly ordering the execution of leftist Spaniards living in Chile in the 1970s, had issued an extradition warrant days earlier. Scotland Yard detectives said Pinochet, who is being held at the London Clinic, would eventually appear at an extradition hearing before a British magistrate. The move stunned Pinochet's boosters and critics alike, making it clear that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Knocking at Midnight | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...attempt to wring the udders of the cash cow for one last drop, the Goo Dolls included "Iris" in their new album, Dizzy Up the Girl. While other bands might fear that such a conspicuous track might trap buyers into assuming that the other songs on the disc were of the same style (how many of you bought Blind Melon in the hopes that every song would be sound like "No Rain?"), John Rzeznik and company confront the supposedly dangerous supposition with shameless affirmation. Yes, they say, every song on this album is (or at least attempts to be) just...

Author: By Frankie J. Petrosino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Girl' a Strangely Upbeat Torture | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...large copper disc on the end of a long metal rod is used to make the ingredients for a Persian-style cream puff. A row of small cookie cutters forms the uncommonly shaped chickpea flour cookies...

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At Kosher Persian Bakery, Baker Continues Family Tradition | 10/7/1998 | See Source »

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