Word: longests
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Read "Tweeting the World's Longest Poem...
...first autumn releases tiptoed into movie theaters. Rather, one of them sauntered - Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself, which ignored the critics and most of the Caucasian movie audience to clean up with $24 million - while the rest staggered. It's as if the longest possible summer stanza (from May 1 to Sept. 7) had finally collapsed from satiety. Hollywood would say it was a grand gorging: all-time box-office records were broken both in North America and abroad...
...true”). Clocking in at just over two and a half minutes, the tune captures Yo La Tengo at their best and briefest.This is not to say they’ve forgotten how to write longer jams, although in a mysterious lapse in judgment they pack the three longest songs in a row at the album’s end. These songs comprise a prodigious 37 minutes (longer than a few of their early LPs), and only one of them seems essential. “The Fireside” drones and wanders but never ignites; closing number...
...prurient Zhou far more relishes (to our unending entertainment) relaying strange customs and fantastical tales he's encountered, like the Khmer women who urinate standing up ("and that is really funny"); the ceremonial, contracted deflowering of young girls by priests, which Zhou details in one of his longest passages; the stealing of human gall bladders; and the nine-headed serpent spirit that turns into a woman and with which the King must couple each night in a chamber at the top of the Phimeanakas (which is still standing). "If for a single night he stays away," Zhou tells...
...more sedated grace of the vintage “Sludgefeast.” The more extended pieces, “Said The People” and “I Don’t Want To Go There,” a combined 16 minutes and change and the longest of the band’s career, are hypnotic if a bit indulgent, bristling with Mascis’ enthusiasm for lengthy solo workouts that the fans will always welcome. Their weight is balanced nimbly with a handful of brisk, melodic pop songs among which are “There?...