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...from an awareness of tight quarters—a shot of Vera’s daughter Ethel (Alex Kelly) barely folding herself into her closet of a bedroom or a glimpse of the apartment building’s courtyard, where rusty bikes huddle, fighting for space under a thin metal roof—or from the contrast between this and the spaciousness of the homes Vera cleans. An abiding atmosphere of tension contributes equally. Relations with Vera’s in-laws are clearly strained, and the audience’s knowledge that Vera’s friend Lily (Ruth...
...distasteful four-minute skit painting an auditory picture of a homosexual machine known as “Gay Robot” has blown up in popularity already, and in response, Sandler is promoting the album with in-character interviews. But even stranger than the numbers involving a hunk of metal propositioning his friends and neighbors is the fact that Sandler’s fans have apparently discovered a new obsession—the dance club scene. DJs have remixed a number of the tracks off Shh...Don’t Tell—including “Secret...
...lightening flashes intermittently in an otherwise clear sky, a group of more than 200 Marines begins to gear up on a dusty plain outside the Iraqi city of Fallujah. Officers bark orders, directing grunts into their vehicles. Tank drivers climb into turrets and crank up heavy-metal tunes. Infantrymen who moments earlier had been asking about baseball scores exhort one another to move forward. "This is what you trained for, Marine!" "You're the hunter! You're the predator...
...most famous connection between pop music and ancient megaliths is Stonehenge, the heavy - metal ode to the Druids by the spoof band Spinal Tap. But in real life, the key connection is Julian Cope, the rocker turned author and mythographer who makes his home near the 5,000 - year - old circle of standing stones at Avebury in Wiltshire, England. "I've been traveling for 13 years just looking at stones," says Cope, once the frontman for postpunk stars the Teardrop Explodes. "To understand them is to understand a way of thinking that goes back at least 6,000 years. They...
When the beating is over they emerge from the river, the long boats floating above their six-foot-something frames. Nothing can penetrate the army mentality, the metal strength of the company: “This We’ll Defend.” The warlords will not concede. The Charles is their fortress. But don’t count the battle won before it’s started. A parched pack of Huskies lurks close by seeking to mark its own territory. It thirsts for Crimson blood. And it loves that dirty water...