Word: elements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...against television media, as has become the fashion, but rather suggesting we affix a gentle warning label on the myths that it purveys. We can watch stiff sitcom characters in their make-believe worlds and gain the wisdom that it is better, all things considered, to have the element of the unexpected in our lives. Harvard students, take note: the possibility of things not going according to plan is, after all, what keeps us real...
...first element of the movement toward improved relations, Burns advocated the establishment of strong personal relationships between leaders...
...include more than Bonfire, that I was obligated to write the biggest book in the world. So I spent 10 very expensive days in Japan looking for some way to get that country into the plot. And I also tried to work in some sort of television-news element and the life of an unsuccessful artist and the dealings of an unctuous insurance salesman, all of which required a lot of research and reporting and proved to be dead ends. I practically have bales of discarded manuscripts...
...album presses onward to its most interesting track, "Transmitter Down." The climaxing pattern is still prevalent, but the rhythm is steady, and the choice and placement of samples are more inventive and interesting. The guitar distortion and synthesized beeps are steady enough to be danced to. This element, which is integral to the popularity of techno, is absent from Experiment Below. The rhythms are too haphazard to be heard at a dance club, but the melody patterns are too repetitive to be appreciated for its artistically creative elements. This places Hovercraft in a netherworld between light industrial and dance techno...
...after playing a sold-out show at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston, the Squirrel Nut Zippers played an energetic, cozy performance at the Roxy, a few blocks away. Both times, the band played with vigor; at the much smaller dance club, however, the band was clearly more in its element...