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...which both crescendo and end with wailing guitars. The latter of those two songs is a lyrical masterpiece about the quixotic search for complete satisfaction in life: “And we’re forever unfulfilled / Can’t think why / Like a search for murder clues / In dead man’s eyes.” The rain eventually subsides. “If You Were There, Beware,” “The Bad Thing,” and “Old Yellow Bricks” all have their moments of blasting guitars...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Arctic Monkeys | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...gunman Seung-Hui Cho’s former classmates have said that his writing was unimaginably gruesome. Two of his plays, “Richard McBeef” and “Mr. Brownstone,” have circulated the Internet. The stories are punctuated with tales of pedophilia, murder, and attacks on teachers...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: English Department Examines Tragedy | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

Tetsuya Shiroo woke up that morning and got himself a gun. Before the day was over, he allegedly used it to murder Iccho Itoh, the mayor of the southwestern Japanese city of Nagasaki, outside his campaign office. While the April 17 shooting first appeared to be an assassination, it soon emerged that Shiroo, a 59-year-old yakuza (gangster) with ties to Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest criminal syndicate, seemed motivated less by politics than by a petty personal grievance. He blamed a minor car accident on city construction work and wanted $17,000 in damages from the Nagasaki government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad Days for Goodfellas | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...beach, a cat they once owned. Hurry, sunrise. When the momentous, life-altering revelation finally comes, the real surprise is that it's pretty lame. Sixteen-year-olds see scarier stuff at the Cineplex, and you can find far more disruptive and entertaining traumas - flood, fire, financial ruin, murder, rape, penury - in Swift's previous novels. And yet, despite its frustrating lack of world-class tragedy, there is something doggedly compelling about Tomorrow. Even when you know what's coming, the way Swift uses dialogue, weather, flashbacks, foreshadowing and sheer finesse to get Paula straight through till dawn - without sounding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Master | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

KEVIN COSTNER, A BAD GUY IN Mr. Brooks? Not quite: he's driven to murder by his alter ego (William Hurt). "He has an addiction he's trying to keep under wraps," Costner says of his character. "In life, when we see somebody trying to beat something, we feel sympathy. There's humanity inside this hideousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movie Villains: So Bad They're Good | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

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