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...sure, SIA's government backing does not translate into obvious excess. The airline's headquarters is located in a drab industrial building on Changi Airport's grounds. Its furniture looks worn enough to date to the airline's launch (and an orange color scheme reveals its 1970s sensibilities). A few years ago, data-processing operations were moved to Bombay, India, for the cost savings...
...associated with” organizations that themselves have only speculative ties to Al Qaeda. So desperate for evidence, the Government has resorted to identifying enemy combatants based, in part, on their wardrobe—the wearing of Casio watches and “olive drab clothing” has been “cited as proof that the detainees were enemy combatants...
...pleasurable bunk and shrewd criticism to basically just compiling drivel. On a redeeming note, “La Cucaracha” does emphasize the musical prowess of this tireless group of oddballs. Though their foray into reggae in “The Fruit Man” is somewhat drab, they show themselves as masterful mimics of the country music style in “Learnin’ to Love” and channel such artists as Cher, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Donovan, and The Doors in other tracks. As an album independent of the Weenian corpus...
Although “We Own the Night” is set in a stark, drab New York City of 1988, it is unmistakably a product of our current social climate—a loud glorification of government-backed violence and a raucous endorsement of a “do whatever it takes” mentality. In the film’s world, cops are still called pigs, cocaine rules the street, Blondie still plays at clubs, and mobsters with ponytails wear tight leather jackets. But such 80s cultural stereotypes seem anachronistic, mostly because they so poorly mask the fact...
...song offers what may be the album’s schizophrenic manifesto: “And chaos is yours / And chaos is mine / And chaos is love and they say love is blind.” Centerpiece “Stallion” clocks in at over six drab, confused minutes and is, quite possibly, the album’s most glaring error. The song is a case study for what can go wrong when creative vision and baroque lyrical aspirations take precedence over melody and focus. Rubdown redeem themselves, however briefly, with “For the Pier...