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...punk albums,...And Out Come the Wolves by the Berkeley band Rancid, and Paranoid & Sunburnt, from the British group Skunk Anansie, are already in stores. The Seattle punk band Hole--whose leader, Courtney Love, is one of the best lyricists in rock (and the widow of Kurt Cobain of Nirvana)--has just come out with a CD titled Ask for It, featuring live material from the band's early days. The primal sound of punk, moreover, can be heard in the music of a growing number of pop acts, including the neofeminist caterwauling of Canadian diva Alanis Morissette...
Green Day is indisputably the most popular punk band since the demise of Nirvana; yet while Nirvana was relentlessly serious--perhaps too serious, as it turned out--Green Day is playfully antisocial. The band's last album comprised punk songs with tuneful hooks, and its new one features more or less the same thing, although its music has grown more belligerent and less melodic. Truth be told, Green Day's songs are so cartoonishly simple they tend to sound alike, yet they are performed with such urgency that they seem fresh...
...some people this would be nirvana. For Nicole Kidman--Mrs. Cruise--it is the proper mix of movies and marriage. "The rule was, we don't turn the television off, no matter what," she says of her marathon. "I found out that TV deadens you, and it's hypnotic. I would get involved in the talk shows, yelling back at the screen." And what about Tom Terrific? "That was his idea of a perfect weekend. Me in bed watching TV, and room service...
None of these societies is Nirvana. Indeed, the anthropological record provides little support for Jean-Jacques Rousseau's notion of the "noble savage" and rather more for Thomas Hobbes' assertion that life for our distant ancestors was "nasty, brutish, and short." The anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has written of his first encounter with the Yanomamo: "The excitement of meeting my first Indians was almost unbearable as I duck-waddled through the low passage into the village clearing." Then "I looked up and gasped when I saw a dozen burly, naked, filthy, hideous men staring at us down the shafts of their...
SOMEONE IS GOING TO HAVE TO DO A better job than TIME did of explaining how this "fat-mice substance" is "weight-loss Nirvana." As I understand it, after being given this new wonder drug, the mice ate less, exercised more and lost weight. This is not Nirvana. Had the mice eaten more, exercised less and lost weight, then we would have a reason to get off the couch and cheer. H. MITCHELL SCHUMAN New York City...