Word: hearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are three kinds of tracks in an Adam Sandler album. The universally funny tracks, those that appeal to the more immature and those that are funny only if you giggle when you hear the term "erector set." In Sandler's new album, half of the skits/songs fall into the lattermost category, and most of the other tracks occupy the second. While there are a couple of exceptions, including an entertaining but overly long midget referee sketch, the trouble with the skits is that Sandler believes there's no such thing as carrying a gag too far, even...
...first that the disconnection between Thorn's dreary vocals and Watt's creative instrumental mischief is intentional to achieve a wasteland acoustic for Watt's sensitive lyrics. But, no. The only piece that holds up is "Five Fathoms," and that's because it's the first time you hear Thorn. From thereon, Watt's clever intros are continually hijacked by Thorn's living-deadpan delivery. "Compression" is a joy for being jungle-smacked and free of her (except in adulterated form). Temperamental is really Watt's project after the last three years of underground DJ-ing. The girl makes...
...Russell somehow extracts the full expressive potential from each bullet. Instead of numbing battle scenes with fifteen million ricocheting bullets, he slows down the path of each shot fired. Instead of "Bang! Bang!" we hear "bang. whoosh. thump. slosh" as the bullet travels through air and into the body of its victim, where Russell, with hyper-colored special effects, intrepidly follows...
...interaction with different types of people, with different interests, goals and perspectives, that enriched our summers. Also, in a community with little diversity of age, hopefully the summer offered an opportunity to take long walks with grandparents, sip tea with the elderly or hear what it was like to be young in the good old days...
...hear the bags zipping and the notebooks closing as you go to shop another article, but hear me out. At first glance, pre-registration seems the enemy of student choice, requiring some sense of preparedness unlikely to be held in advance. Yet in the end, for us it will be just another hoop to jump through like the plans of study many concentrators fill out and then dutifully ignore year to year. For the Faculty, it will be an important step toward more responsible course organization...