Word: line
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...that evokes the disco funk of New York’s Studio 54, where Marcos was famous for dancing with celebrities like Andy Warhol. Warhol is actually name-dropped on “Dancing Together,” which features a mix of crashing drums and a funky bass line that make it the album’s closest approximation to both disco...
...Questions. 10 Minutes. Make a difference!” exclaims a poster plastered to the side of an MBTA bus. Such advertisements are ubiquitous in Cambridge—some cars on the Red Line of the T have been entirely filled with Census...
...attached a large axe. When he expresses his surprise, violins screech forebodingly, and Marie answers, “You never know when you may need an axe!” Though Leo’s performance is genuinely creepy and amusing, her delivery could not prevent this hackneyed line from falling flat...
...currently circulating. The album still includes the typical clichés of misogyny, shameless bravado, and violent fantasy—it wouldn’t be a Wu release if it didn’t—but it manages to quite successfully navigate the fine line between aggressive and elegant. This culminates in a soulful, uplifting and rather smooth production that still manages to pack a brutal, knuckle-duster-wearing punch...
Because the novel contains many story lines, characters, and flashbacks, the plot can often lack cohesion, especially without the connections Ellison would presumably have made between characters and episodes. Trippy visions of talking buzzards and hitching-post men have startling force but seem disconnected from the central story line, and some of Hickman and Sunraider’s extended flashback sequences stall without a strong narrative arc to support them. Nevertheless, the intrigue of these two characters and the vividness of their stories—however disjointed they may be—is more than enough to make...