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...misuse of technology for self-improvement. Lucid lullabies ("Airbag," "No Surprises"), Kafkaesque visions ("Paranoid Android"), obligatory condemnatory ballads ("Karma Police," "Lucky") and a pleasingly incongruous-yet-wicked-good rock song ("Electioneering") assembled a musical line-up so good that one instantly forgave the band for the tiresome poem "Fitter Happier" occupying the seventh track of the album. The unanimous acclaim OK Computer received and subsequent appearance on every music magazine's "Top 10 albums of the Year" lists (as well as on countless top-10-albums-of-all-time lists) left music-lovers and critics alike standing over Radiohead...
...surface Kid A, with its strong move towards using electronic sounds rather than guitars, offers a bleak vision for a new world order. The technology created to make us "fitter, happier" and "more productive" in OK Computer can now manipulate human beings at its electronic will. However, interspersed throughout the album are electronic baby babble and lullaby-like fragments-poignant moments that reminds the listener that the Kid A of the album's title, although a triumph of technology, is still a human being-an element of hope that has been lacking in Radiohead's previous releases. The struggle...
...Maybe it was the format - certainly Cheney seems happier around a table than behind a podium. It could have been the opening pledge, Lieberman's let's-be-nice-tonight version of the Al Gore and Jack Kemp football-for-chlorofluorocarbons gambit, but if it was it a gambit, it paid off for everybody involved. Yes, Cheney's performance was a bit of a revelation, mostly because it really didn't look like a performance (Lieberman, fonder of the Gore catch phrases but so much gentler than Gore when he spits them out, was merely as affable as expected...
...dour season. But the word on the Street is that NASDAQ will be back, one of these days. Maybe when this earnings season gets rolling in earnest later this month - what we're in now is called "pre-announcement purgatory," when the news is almost all bad - and some happier numbers come...
...move, Gore could again paint Bush and Cheney as a ticket "of Big Oil, by Big Oil and for Big Oil." When Bush and Cheney stressed their plan to increase domestic oil production by opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to drilling, the Gore team was even happier. They quickly reminded reporters that Cheney's former firm, Halliburton, would reap windfall profits from such a move...