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...first few tracks are rock'n'roll, plain and simple. "How the West Was Won and What it Got Us" has the over-produced slickness of, say, an INXS song; Stipe's voice even has a touch of Michael Hutcheson's throaty howl. Yet "West" succeeds by relying on its lazy seductiveness and evoking the bleary, muted resentment of the afternoon after the morning after...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: R.E.M. Turns Corn-Belt Rock Gods | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

...Georgia, and found mainstream success, it was a college-dance-party band. How the West Was Won, with its staccato, insistent, danceable rhythm, returns the band to its roots. But the song isn't simply clubland fluff; there are more than a few arty touches, including the sustained existential howl Stipe uses to punctuate the end of several passages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: NEW ADVENTURES IN HI-FI | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...Tuesday afternoon, as the first exit polls from Arizona sank directly into their veins, that the G.O.P. elders clutched their chests and began to howl. Word went out that Dole was running a distant third behind Buchanan and Forbes. G.O.P. leaders in Washington began making hand-holding calls to big contributors and found them in shock. When the Beltway Republicans reached the Governors, they found some so spooked they were thinking of peeling off and finding another candidate to back. Everyone wanted to talk to someone, anyone, inside the Dole campaign. "It was just awful," said a party paramedic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: Rescue Party | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

Shortly before midnight on Monday, the Quad Howl brought the creators of the Easter Island god to stand-guard around the statue with seven-foot gas torches, like ancient witch doctors around their idol. Streakers danced around the god and chanted strange beebop tunes...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Tales of the Quad God | 1/24/1996 | See Source »

...bombarding with cones, rustling, hooting...Then I took a closer look, and I was horror-struck. Here's a man with his head hanging by one flimsy crimson thread, there's one with a heap of thick worms for stomach...I could not endure it. I let out a howl, jumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: DIVINITY IN THE DETAILS | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

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