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...wreckers' ball. Napoléon III and his architect Baron Haussmann - with their vision of an imposing, rectilinear city - had launched the orgy of destruction, and the advance of the new Métro system was finishing the job. Soon, it seemed, the Paris of Abelard and Héloïse, Voltaire and Molière, Balzac and Hugo would be a dusty memory, surviving only in literature and paintings...
Once upon a time, in a land near near by, there were fairy tales. Brave princes slew dragons and saved fair damsels. Princesses and scullery maids waited for brave knights and true love. The good were pretty, the evil ugly, the morals absolute. And lo, it was good. If you liked that sort of thing...
...dramatic peak, but never found it—not because of a lack of drama, but because the drama is perpetually full-blast. I thought that the play had climaxed when Nicholas attempted to strangle Forbess in a grippingly violent scene. But a half hour later, and lo and behold, there is another strangulation attempt. So, perhaps the blame for the constant intensity lies with the script...
...return to the still-icy Northeast from a water polo training-trip in sunny California. Because my coach had reserved the tickets, I had no idea where I’d be sitting, so all I could do was hand over my ID and hope for the best. Lo and behold, the best was not what I received, and as I glanced down at the ticket shoved to me across the sticky counter by the JetBlue attendant, I saw a number and letter that implied discomfort for the next six hours...
...than previous Bright Eyes records, it’s hard to reconcile Oberst’s explorations of mortality, love, and time with his occasional emo episodes of self-indulgence. The first track, “Clairaudients (Kill or Be Killed),” opens with a lo-fi recording of a woman’s voice advocating a road trip to Cassadaga, Fla., and other locations of spirituality and energy where one might find “vortexes” and eventual life change. In the background, an orchestra grates out dissonant tones that gradually climax and make...