Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lobos has been together for 17 years, gigging at first, in the words of lead singer and co-writer David Hidalgo, "for a case of beer." Mexican American by birth, the band's original members took their initial inspiration from the guitar-monster music of Jimi Hendrix and Cream, the uptown scampery of the Stones, the folk-inflected harmonies of Buffalo Springfield. Mexican music didn't count. "We didn't want to hear that when we grew up," says Perez. "We wanted to hear James Brown...
...wonder to what purpose the book was written, other than to serve as a framework for the inevitable screenplay. Maas suggests that the case "concerns what we as a nation were supposed to be all about" but never really explains how or why. Although Taylor is a psychotic monster, there is nothing epic about his depravity, and Maas never solves the mystery of this man's heart of darkness. It may be unfair to fault an author for the book he didn't write, but In a Child's Name might have probed more deeply had it been a novel...
This image of Silber as a tyrannical monster isextremely difficult for many students to shake,Cooper said...
Ever since the Japanese introduced the kudzu vine to America at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, the broad-leafed creeper has been a much maligned nuisance. Like some omnivorous green space monster, the irrepressible plant has spread across the Southeast, smothering everything from telephone poles to abandoned cars...
...history," he tells her. "That's something I could never have with a fly. Because they only live for -- what? -- two weeks max." Flaherty, meanwhile, is disarmingly oblivious to the havoc he is creating. When he concocts a serum that turns his shy guinea pig into a snarling monster, he simply lets the hellion loose outdoors with a cheery "Run free...