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Guero’s influences stretch beyond old Beck material, embracing the inglorious lower tiers of pop culture and throwing them into the mix. Some of the electronic ditties, such as that of “Earthquake Weather,” recall the early 1990s childhood aesthetic of Super Mario Brothers or Sonic the Hedgehog. At other times Guero moves away from the standard beats and chord progressions of pop music to dabble in non-Western modes and rhythms; “Missing” is to Beck what “Within You, Without You?...
Guero’s influences stretch beyond old Beck material, embracing the inglorious lower tiers of pop culture and throwing them into the mix. Some of the electronic ditties, such as that of “Earthquake Weather,” recall the early 1990s childhood aesthetic of Super Mario Brothers or Sonic the Hedgehog. At other times Guero moves away from the standard beats and chord progressions of pop music to dabble in non-Western modes and rhythms; “Missing” is to Beck what “Within You, Without You?...
...Manufacturers and unions alike are howling for protection. Adrià Serra, president of Spain's textile trade group Consejo Intertextil Espa?ol, says unless urgent action is taken, the import flood will spell "a disaster." Mario Maselli, owner of Emmetex, a textile producer in the Italian town of Prato, complains that "this is ever more a market where one side battles with two hands and the other has one hand tied behind its back...
...country like Denmark or a new E.U. member like the Czech Republic would probably result in a second round of polling. In 1992, the Irish initially snubbed the Nice treaty that prepared the way for E.U. enlargement before approving a reworked version 16 months later. Former E.U. Competition Commissioner Mario Monti urges that in case of a rejection, the holdouts should be offered a final take-it-or-leave-it proposition. The second time around, Monti says, the question should be: "Do you wish your country to be part of the E.U. and adopt the constitution or do you wish...
...represented a cross-section of Americans disillusioned with both major parties: Shoshana Leiser, who "despises" Republicans as lapdogs of the rich but trusts Perot better than Clinton to take them on; Pauline Doane, a former conservative Republican who fears that the party has "sold out to the religious right"; Mario Minervini, a retired liquor wholesaler who supports Buchanan on most issues except abortion...