Word: kurt
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What effect it will ultimately have on rock is still unfolding. A passage in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five describes a race of aliens who have transcended time. Past, present and future exist all at once for them. These aliens "look at all the different moments just the way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains...
This is very sensible of her, especially in light of Dutch's maniacal pursuit of all the dreary details of the adulterous back story. This investigation of the painfully obvious is glum and endless and appears to have been designed by writer Kurt Luedtke (working from a Warren Adler novel) to show Dutch in the worst possible light. Apparently, though, Kay has a taste for sullen plodders. No other explanation is offered for her decision to enter into a brief, nervous affair with Dutch...
...Line Careful readers of this space may remember that the Line trashed Rams QB Kurt Warner a few weeks ago. Warner responded to the slight by roasting the Falcons. Well, the Line has seen the light, climbed aboard the Warner Wagon and is hitching a ride all the way to V-I-C-T-O-R-Y. Besides, the crowd in Cincy's going to be smaller than World League audiences, so Warner will feel right at home -- Rams romp over the toothless BENGALS...
...anything that came before. The record was a Kafkaesque critique of an industrial world filled with poison-spewing factories and desolate, ruined people. Its harrowing music, for better or worse, established Reznor and his band, Nine Inch Nails, as one of the few fresh voices rock has produced since Kurt Cobain. But in the view of some social critics, its X-rated imagery made Reznor the spiritual sire of school violence and corrupted youth...
Central to Sugar Town, which was written and directed with casual aplomb by Allison Anders and Kurt Voss, are the efforts of a new band, composed of old rockers trying to re-establish themselves. In the end, that comes down to getting one of them, played by Michael Des Barres, who is exclusively interested in teenyboppers, to sexually service a potential backer, the hilariously voracious Beverly D'Angelo. The look on his face when he discovers the joys of mature sex could serve as the emblem of this sweet-tempered movie, which eventually touches--wryly, knowingly, forgivingly--on at least...