Word: headlong
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...what’s in store as it transitions from cacophonous dirge to handclapping barnburner. More than forty minutes into the album, “Spitting Venom” comes crawling out of the gate with a restrained Brock and a twang of Modest Mouse past before jumping headlong into more seemingly standard dance fare. Three minutes in, however, there’s no sign of letting up, just a quick breather before Brock begins cautioning “Let it all drop / Oh let it all fall off.” By this point, the drums have dropped...
...native land and to the sort of material with which he first established his international reputation, Soldier of Orange, his 1977 resistance drama of a much more conventional kind. But in his 69th year, Verhoeven is perhaps something of a split personality: a man who cannot unlearn the headlong American way of making movies that he learned comparatively late in life (he was 48 when he came here) and a man who may also have an aging eye angled at his eventual place in cinema history. Black Book is, I think, an attempt to satisfy both these impulses. Such mixtures...
...business major at the University of Colorado at Boulder, set up a similar club in November. In three years as a traceur, as parkour people call themselves, Ford has had one notable injury: separating his shoulder last summer after his foot clipped a rail and sent him headlong toward concrete. But instead of face planting, he managed to keep rolling over. "I like to think parkour actually saved me from more serious injuries," he says. "I know how to fall...
Recording his city's rich architectural heritage has been a demoralizing task for Shanghainese photographer Deke Erh. While Art Deco buildings in Miami, New Zealand's Napier and even the Eritrean town of Asmara are lovingly tended, Shanghai has demolished scores of equally historic structures in its headlong rush for modernity. "I've been taking photographs of old Shanghai for 20 years, and I've continually seen these things torn down," says Erh. "But I still have hope. Even today, Shanghai has more Art Deco buildings than any other city in the world. If I didn't have hope...
...both wondrous and psychotic. There are certain parallels between Israel and America -- both nations born with a mission, both ingatherings of people from around the world. In a curious way, part of the genius of America has been a collective forgetfulness, a talent for somehow outdistancing problems in a headlong race toward something new. It is a form of heedlessness, perhaps, blithe and profligate, but also an exuberant forward spin that may spare people the exhausting obligations of revenge. A curse of the Middle East is that almost nothing there is ever forgotten. Part of the difference is physical space...