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...acutely personal and emotional themes of tracks like “Angel” and “If I Had Eyes.” But “Sleep Through the Static” actually establishes an important thematic thread that runs throughout the album—a motif of embracing sensation even when it brings pain. While expressing an inability to understand the world when he is “stuck between channels,” Johnson argues that the current political climate forces a choice between “pushing for peace?...
...probe those minds and try to figure out how…they carry through projects, doing things which matter for our world.”Explaining what it means to be a dancer, d’Amboise described the fetus’s experience in the womb, a motif he would return to in his discussion of “Apollo.”“The blood is pumping and they begin to feel rhythm through movement. Momma’s running for the bus, Momma’s asleep,” d’Amboise said...
...taking a different tack, promoting helmets as fashion items. The group's commercial arm, Protec, manufactures special "tropical" helmets with air vents, floral designs and racing stripes. Miss Vietnam 2006, Mai Phuong Thuy, has joined the campaign, posing for promotional posters wearing a Protechelmet with a stained-glass motif. Recently, street-side helmet stands have popped up on virtually every corner...
...legend-maker. In an attack by the Frisians, he humiliates one warrior but doesn't kill him; "Give him a gold piece and send him home. He has a story to tell." Before confronting Grendel, he strips himself naked. (Battling in the buff is a major motif this year, in 300 and Eastern Promises.) As Beowulf leaps from one end of the Hall to the other, the movie treats you to more cutesy-poo hide-the-penis shots than in Bart's skateboard ride in The Simpsons Movie...
...Museum Here are a wealth of items based on indigenous art from the Americas, as well as the art of Japan, China and Ancient Egypt. Prices go from $15 for a silver-effect Peruvian bird pin - modeled on a motif found on a pre-Columbian tunic from Peru's central coast - to $2,500 for a one-of-a-kind Native American sterling silver and green turquoise necklace featuring a pendant called a naja, the Navajo word for crescent. www.brooklynmuseum.org...