Word: monsoon
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...most part, Indians are more successful behind the camera than in front of it. M. Night Shyamalan made the megahits The Sixth Sense and Signs. Mira Nair, director of Salaam Bombay and Monsoon Wedding, is making an Indian-infused take on Vanity Fair, with Reese Witherspoon as Becky Sharp. And Nair has a three-film slate for her company, International Bhenji Brigade, financed by an Indian businessman...
...millions of aspiring capitalists. In part, of course, the BJP simply got lucky, assuming power in 1998, just as the nation's IT industry began to blossom. And today's thundering economy?which grew by 10.4% in the last quarter?may owe more to last year's bounteous monsoon than to enlightened business reform. But the BJP has had the wit to adapt its message of strident Hindu nationalism to a more mature one of prosperous peace with Pakistan and loud pride in India's growing economic heft...
...entirely delivers on its promise. “So Many Ways,” with its wistful chorus of “So many ways, so many ways…to lie about this,” is the emotional high point of an album painted in quiet tones. Monsoon may grow on you, but only if you have the time to wander down into Stairs’ basement...
Unlike Gas, this year’s outing, Monsoon, never really shakes the feeling of aimlessness. According to the liner notes, the album “was recorded in a dark unfinished basement.” Perhaps this is some justification for Mr. Stairs’ wandering songwriting that chugs along on a predictable guitar strum...
...best things about Gas was that it definitively wasn’t a Pavement album. The same cannot be said of Monsoon. Though Stairs rarely achieves Malkmus’ free association lyricism, his decidedly indie delivery is couched in undistinguished material that sounds like Pavement B-sides. There are some more upbeat moments: “Caught In The Rain” features one of Stairs’ bummed-yet-cheery choruses while “Line It Up” musters a strut that the rest of Monsoon only gestures towards...