Word: lucidity
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...they become lucid when they sing," says Montgomery-Smith, who has witnessed improvements in sociability and communication during her musical meetings. "The research isn't there to support it at the moment but I'm confident these sessions will one day be shown to slow the progression of Alzheimer's. The benefit [of singing] as a hidden cognitive rehabilitation is evident. You can't keep a good idea down forever...
...Franz Ferdinand aesthetic while adding these newer elements. That said, they fail to replicate the magic of their most popular single, “Take Me Out.” The album goes wrong when they depart almost completely from their template, evident in “Lucid Dreams.” The song clocks in at nearly 8 minutes and much of that is a dub odyssey with a lazy, reggae-influenced beat. The album’s version of “Lucid Dreams” is not to be confused with a different song released earlier this...
...Americans wondering if the economy will bring our nation to ruin, it is a fair question as to whether the extraordinary growth of the past few decades has brought us any closer to finding a solution to the “economic problem.” At his most lucid, Stoll warns us not to hold our breath in waiting for technological innovation to save the day. The best suggestion that Stoll can offer us is an increased “efficiency,” but this seems like a band-aid solution at best. Even...
...most recent arrest, T.I. seems comfortable with every role he assumes in “Paper Trail.” So titled because T.I. actually wrote down his verses for the first time since his debut LP, “Paper Trail” is unsurprisingly the most lucid and lyrically punchy album that he has yet put out. While his metaphors and rhyme schemes are rarely exceptional, Tip’s delivery is on point, and he cultivates a variety of catchy hooks and different flows. Take his verse on the superstar-studded “Swagga Like...
What was "it"? In Infinite Jest Wallace wrote--in a passage that now reads like a lucid cell-phone call from the pilot of a crashing 747--that clinical depression is "lonely on a level that cannot be conveyed ... Everything is part of the problem, and there is no solution. It is a hell for one." What Wallace suffered was both agonizing and indescribable, even by him. And that last may have been what made it unbearable. Like Hamlet--who gave Infinite Jest its title--he had that within which passeth show. Even if he could have written...