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...Smells Like Teen Spirit" was everywhere. "Over Me," "Breathe" and "Clear World" all possess obsessive, driving guitarwork by Lane which is reminiscent of Nevermind. Hearing the drawn out and angst-ridden vocals, particularly those of "Clear World," one cannot help but think of Kurt Cobain. Overtones of Soundgarden also linger over a number of the tracks...
...like a bitter saccharine after taste, the disputes of last fall-centering on the appointment of a new dean of public service--may linger far after the reasons that inspired restructuring have been forgotten...
COMING ON THE HEELS OF GINGRICH'S BUDGET woes, the GOPAC fight has kept him on the defensive, a place he'd rather not linger. The next few weeks of budget summitry will require a tight focus and a strong stomach. The most immediate danger for Gingrich is that this extraordinary year will yield little concrete policy change--an outcome that Dole or Clinton could exploit in their presidential campaigns but one that could consign the Speaker to political limbo...
What isn't natural is going crazy--for sadness to linger on into debilitating depression, for anxiety to grow chronic and paralyzing. These are largely diseases of modernity. When researchers examined rural villagers in Samoa, they discovered what were by Western standards extraordinarily low levels of cortisol, a biochemical by-product of anxiety. And when a Western anthropologist tried to study depression among the Kaluli of New Guinea, he couldn't find...
These are issues worth considering at length and leisure. Eastwood does; he is a man who likes to take his time. The picture clocks in at 2 1/4 hours -- a span in which anyone who got past 10th grade could read the book, linger over favorite passages and smoke a reflective cigarette afterward. Part of this time is wasted on a framing story about the affair's impact decades later on Francesca's grown children. The rest is lavished on the warming of two stars and styles as they reach accommodation...