Word: normale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Helium is a Cambridge-based band; its nucleus is singer/guitarist Mary Timony (who used to be in Autoclave with Christina Billotte of Slant 6), and their every-three-weeks-or-so-for-two-years schedule of gigs has built them a startlingly big live following. It's "normal," or used to be normal, for new bands to write "difficult" songs and to gradually drop them in favor of poppier, clearer numbers...
...appropriate, then, that the third songs on both sides are startling wake-up calls. "XXX" scarily suggests that maybe prostitution and normal romance aren't so far apart after all: "I feel like candy/I'll go out on the street and make some money/That was just a joke/About the money:/You're going to pay me with your life." That's the chorus: it comes around at least three times, and by the third time the "joke" has become a real threat. It's not a threat of literal violence at all, but the threat that the girl...
...loss in the sense that it was a team that we knew we could beat, but it's not destructive by any means," Gaffney said. "There are a lot of more games left--and they'll probably be under more normal conditions...
...probably not be satisfied in letting their children face the same pressures and dangers as my friend, for the sole purpose of maintaining a stubborn front of intransigence for their country. And neither would Israeli parents. Israelis wish as much as anything to be allowed to exist as a normal, demilitarized society...
...lost. Late one night in his two-bedroom apartment -- strewn with war booty, weapons and the ransacked belongings of the previous tenants, a displaced Muslim family -- he wrestles with the idea of peace. "All I know how to do is kill," he says. "I am not sure I am normal anymore. I can talk to people, but if someone pushes me, I will kill them ... In the beginning I was able to put my fear aside, and it was good. Then with the killings I was able to put my emotions aside, and it was good. But now they...