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...first they seem to be sock puppets who sound stoned. But soon they're your friends. Sifl and Olly sing songs, argue and interview the likes of an orgasm, a nine-volt battery, the Grim Reaper and an atom in one of Elvis' combs. The show's unscripted feel and sub-Kukla production values make the bizarre punch lines even more jolting. The chemistry between the puppets springs from the longtime friendship of Liam Lynch and Matt Crocco, two childhood friends from Nashville who, while in different colleges, used the voices on each other's answering machines. Now struggling musicians...
...gloomier, more pessimistic sounds that are complemented nicely by the ultra-scratchy voice of lead singer B-Real, who sounds as if he's suffering from one too many hits from the bong. The extremely somber Cypress Hill III had a number of serious, grave successes, such as the grim "Killafornia" and the spooky, spiritual "Illusions." Thus it is not surprising that the best songs on Cypress Hill IV are the ones that boast the most chilling sounds. "Dead Men Tell No Tales" is a pleasingly eerie mesh of quiet guitar riffs, chimes and the voice of B-Real clucking...
That pattern left the impression that the American people treat constitutional matters as more sacred than the leaders to whom they are entrusted, and the debate on Thursday sealed it. The mood was grim and rash and deeply bitter. When House minority leader Richard Gephardt mentioned on the floor the Republican lust to poke their investigative Q-Tips into the cracks of everything from campaign finance to Travelgate to the FBI files, many Republicans forgot their instructions to be dignified and cheered, yelped "Yes!" and applauded. And when Gephardt later said, in true sorrow, that "our problem...
...cold war also had plenty of action, and the series makes the most of this as well. The failed Hungarian revolution of 1956, for example, provides grim footage and heartbreaking reminiscences. Weeping, an agricultural technician recalls how often he was tempted to leave the barricades, but when he saw the 14- and 15-year-old boys fighting beside him, he could not. "The shame kept me there," he says. Of course, the hot wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and elsewhere offer plenty of drama, and it is exciting to hear a mercenary talk about fighting in Angola. But the real...
Life offers such a grim plenitude of fatal accidents, of deaths visited on the undeserving without discernible pattern or purpose, that serious fiction, as opposed to mysteries and thrillers, tends to shun or downplay such events. Writers and readers alike expect stories to make sense, after all, and random tragedies simply don't. So author William Trevor takes something of a risk when he opens his latest novel, Death in Summer (Viking; 214 pages; $23.95), with a woman riding a bicycle along an English country lane being hit and killed...