Word: lamentations
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...will go largely underappreciated next to their hilarious lyrics, it does deserve a close listen. The synth-heavy Kraftwerk-meets-spoken-word 80s parody song “Inner City Pressure” is a fine example of production value adding to the humor of the song. A mock lament of rough and tumble city life, the track gets to the point where you can almost see Bret’s solemn expression mouthing the words to the chorus. “Boom,” a song that wasn’t really all that funny on the show...
...joining the chorus of black voices swelling with nostalgia to return to their African roots, Douglass stayed put. Poet Langston Hughes grieved in verse that "(America never was America to me) ... (There's never been equality for me,/ Nor freedom in this 'homeland of the free')." But his lament is couched in a poem whose title, like its author, yearns for acceptance: Let America Be America Again...
...eight we’ll have a toast to the Fogg. We’ll also talk about our plans for the future, because it will be the night that the torch of leadership is passed to Nora and me.” Though supporters of the museums lament the closures of the Fogg and Busch Reisinger, they add that 32 Quincy St. building is badly in need of repairs. “I think it’s a shame that a generation of students is going to lose access to that really great resource,” Kristina...
...didn’t—most notably, a sense of perspective. While he might not exactly be an elder statesman in the vein of Nas or Rakim, his lead single “Bubble Pop” serves as a worthy critique of rap culture today. Its mock-lament of the “deflation” of today’s hip-hop “helium heads” resonates powerfully over a doughy beat layered beneath the sampled bells of Bob James’s “Take me to the Mardi Gras...
...United Nation's news agency IRIN this week, his party, which is aligned with Musharraf, lost the parliamentary poll "because people were angry over the fact atta [flour] was not available, that food prices were high, and due to this they felt insecure." It's a familiar lament in Pakistan these days. "We are worried about terrorism and those other things, but first we are worried about basic needs," says Islamabad nurse Nithat, 24, as she shops in the capital's busy Aab Para market. "People want a person who can fix this problem...