Word: lite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Originally the darlings of Manhattan's neo-disco scene, the members of DEEE- LITE burst into the musical mainstream two years ago with a debut album of thumping, synthesized rhythms that sold more than 1 million copies worldwide. Infinity Within, the group's new release, maintains the momentum. Super D.J. Dmitry Brill and Towa "Towa" Tei produce exuberant mixes that slam along at up to 130 beats a minute, and singer Lady Kier Kirby handles the vocals with a newly polished self-assurance. This time out, the trio has added some substance to its style with politically correct lyrics...
...designed Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands. "It goes from the penguin in the sewers to a flying rodent. So these are aggressive sets, not passive backdrops incidental to the action." The visual contrasts -- big on little, bright on brooding, snow on soot -- give the film a distinct, witty style: Dark Lite...
...newcomer, the text is enlivened at every turn by all the familiar props of the Hughes voice -- the mischievous erudition (translating a Latin motto as "Far down! Far out!"), the rococo diction ("fribblers" and "cutpurses" abound) and the Augustan bite (asides that wither "the mingy veneering of today's 'lite' architecture"). Beneath the virile lucidity of the prose, however, is a subtle and sensitive mind that can lead the reader, patiently, into complexity: "In Gaudi one sees flourishing the egotism achieved by those who think they have stepped beyond the bounds of the mere ego and identified themselves with nature...
Common sense and calorie consciousness have put a dent in beer sales. Miller Time gave way to near beer, lite beer, then dry beer. Next: tap water with a side order of organically grown hops...
...their final destination at the John Harvard statue, the group entered into a rivalry reminscent of a Miller Lite advertisement, alternately yelling "Tick" and "Tock." A crowd of approximately 25 amazed and intrigued students followed the group to the front of University Hall...