Word: fainted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...takes the form of listless flotsam-assemblage sculpture, things built from chunks of Styrofoam, torn cardboard or bits of twisted wire. It's piled together with some measure of deliberation, but who can tell how much? Its heart may be in the right place, but it emits an awfully faint pulse...
...spotty, amnesiac continuity.The truly epic “More News from Nowhere” closes the album with recurring allusions to Homer’s “Odyssey.” Again, Cave’s weathered vocals take center stage, but the narrative fits firmly between the faint white-noise background and the soft guitar plucks. Ultimately, nihilism turns to exhausted agnosticism as Cave laments his own insignificance: “Don’t it make you feel alone? / Don’t it make you want to get right back home?” For Cave...
...streets of Karachi to greet her return from exile strains credibility, especially as most journalists and observers have put that number, by the most generous estimates, at 300,000. Most egregious however, are her overwrought descriptions of the terrible blast that same night. Her claim to have heard the faint cries of "Jeay Bhutto" - "Long live Bhutto" - from the wounded as they lay dying in the streets smacks of cheap political mythmaking...
...faint of heart—or Republicans,’” the review read. “This SoMa drag club gets as ‘crowded as Gold’s Gym on January 2nd’ with ‘large squealing bachelorette parties’ and ‘open-minded out-of-towners...
...exile strains credibility, especially as most journalists and observers put the number at a generous 300,000. Most egregious however, is her overwrought descriptions of the terrible blast that same night. The death toll is enough; her account of watching a video of the event later and hearing the faint cry of Jeay Bhutto - "long live Bhutto" - from the wounded as they lay dying in the streets smacks of political aggrandizement...