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...third movement waltz added a lighter note to the top-heavy symphony, and the interchange of pizzicato notes increased the diversity of texture yet again. By the final movement, the Andante Maestoso, one had seen fleeting smiles pass across the faces of more than a few HRO members, and the toll taken by the the grand volume sustained throughout the finale showed in the flailing of broken bowhairs in the orchestra...

Author: By Andrea H. Kurtz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dazzling HRO Mixes Old and New Classical | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...Degrees" follows in the same lyrical vein as "Punk Rock Elite," but the streamlined punk sound takes a few breaks for lighter, bass-heavy breakdowns, a musical influence that blossoms in later tracks. Fat Mike questions society in traditional punk fashion ("It's so easy to defend the status quo/With everyone so cool and cynical/But when you see the end don't justify the means") as the slow funk beat transforms into a crashing, supercharged rhythm...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pop Punk Veterans Just Coasting with New Album | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...seemed too benign), 40%-to-50% declines ahead in emerging markets, and, of course, the long-awaited great bear market in the U.S. Sure, he threw in a couple of caveats, but the tone was all scare. You could see the market aflame even before Biggs had finished spraying lighter fluid. Within minutes I heard traders tell me everything from "Biggs thinks this is the end" to "Biggs says get out now because the market's gonna crash today." No matter that Biggs had been wrong before, including a devastating get-out-of-tech call right at the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT IT WAS LIKE AT GROUND ZERO | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

Moving on to lighter subjects, The Mollusk continues to build mini-stories around a whale and eel. Resembling The Beatles' "Octopus' Garden" a little too closely, "Polka Dot Tail" couples the eternal question "Have you ever seen a whale/With a polka dot tail" with "Have you ever tried to shrink/Like an ice cube in the sink." Apparently these are pertinent questions to the waterlogged minds of Ween's 11 band members. Exploring nothing musically or lyrically novel, "The Golden Eel" trudges through an unrevealing revelation: "Watching the eel/Help me find the way home...Daylight has come/I can not repeal/The words...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Underwater Rhythms: A Mission Impossible | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

HITACHI MINI-NOTE: Making its debut in December is Hitachi's Pentium-based, 2.7-lb. "micro-notebook." Ideal for Windows95 users who need to pack a lighter load. $2,499 (estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techwatch: Nov. 3, 1997 | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

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