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Featuring The Mode Mode,JenR8R and Putney Swope...
Richard Wright says in How Bigger Was Born that "the environment supplies the instrumentalities through which the organism express itself, and if that environment is warped or tranquil, the mode and manner of behavior will be affected toward deadlocking tensions or orderly fulfillment and satisfaction...
...Depeche Mode: a name that demands satisfaction. And The Singles 81>85 can satisfy, if you listen with a bit of willpower. Generally, the early songs on 81>85 are boring and odd: deadpan lyrics against bonky day-train melodies lead to wholesome industrial marches. Depeche Mode did have some moments in their youth-tinny drum hooks after the "People are People" chorus, a lot of pleasant moaning, pipey synth pushing throughout. By the second half of 81>85, DM starts timing its airy crescendoes very well and on tracks like "Blasphemous Rumours" and "Shake the Disease" you can feel...
...Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of this semester's Historical Study A-18, "Science and Society in the 20th Century," recognizes this mode of communication. "The word had gotten out that I was good. You know, the e-mail jargon...
...McCain to meet with me on the basis that I wanted to talk to him about why he wouldn't talk to me. The maverick McCain, if he could be lulled back into Dial-a-Quote mode, could explain the odd coalition of impeachment hawks, who want to keep the trial going in hopes they can finally land their prey, and process groupies, who want to keep the trial going largely to pass constitutional muster. He could explain that peculiar on-again, off-again relationship between Trent Lott and Orrin Hatch. He could explain Trent Lott...