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...Helium: as more and more people showed up to their gigs, the songs got longer and slower. A bouncy college-radio favorite, "American Jean," vanished from their live set, and was replaced by complicated works in which the incidental sound of Mary Timony's fingers sliding along the guitar neck, or the slow boom of mallets on drums, might be as important to a song as the sequence of chords and riffs, On a good night, the effect was cathartic, hypnotic; on a bad night (which mostly meant a night with a bad sound engineer), the new songs sounded sludgy...
...rigors of prehistoric African life enabled members of the H. habilis clan to survive as a species for 500,000 years or more, and at least one group of them apparently evolved, around 2 million years B.P., into a taller, stronger, smarter variety of human. From the neck down, Homo erectus, on average about 5 ft. 6 in. tall, was probably almost indistinguishable from a modern human. Above the neck -- well, these were still primitive humans. The skulls have flattened foreheads and prominent brow ridges like those of a gorilla or chimpanzee, and the jawbone shows no hint of anything...
...work. He said he becomes his characters, because "you can't fake emotion." (I started to wonder how much practice went into creating that superb air guitarist.) Lest I misinterpret his commitment to his characters, Cruise clarified, "That's not to say I go home and bite Nic's neck." (I felt like he was slowly letting me into his shell--first angst, now wit! Persistence was gradually paying...
...didn't enjoy killing mice: "It was gross. you could either gas them to death, or take them by the tail and the nape of the neck and then twist...
Russia's top ultranationalist was up to his neck last week in forceful pronouncements and manly winter sports...