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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...keep the band's core audience blissfully alienated. Minerva, the first single, is a churning semiballad about a failed relationship that, with minimal allegorization, could also be addressed to the kids in the pit. With his voice floating over a crisp hurricane of guitar, Moreno sings, "I get all numb/ We're the same numb/ And it brings our knees to the earth." It's not subtle, but then it doesn't objectify anybody, and it has a winner of a hook. That is probably the most we can ask of nu-metal. As for Moreno's lyrics - championed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sound And Some Fury | 5/25/2003 | See Source »

...have reason to think he took a liking to me. He kept saying, “Among all the numb-dicked prick-toed Macchios on this lonely planet, you’ve grabbed a couple chopsticks and done some damage. That’s the most anyone can do.” When I asked him what he was referring to, he said, as if quoting, “Macchio, Ralph. Ralph Macchio was a significant early player who changed the way mustaches are worn, and rarely receives credit for his pivotal role in the My Cousin Vinny counter-culture...

Author: By Jacob Rubin, | Title: How To Get Play At Harvard College | 5/1/2003 | See Source »

...don’t know what weather HEPS will bring, so this was a great chance to compete in the worse conditions,” women’s co-captain Ashley Furst said. “Our feet were frozen and numb and our hands were freezing...

Author: By Samita Mannapperuma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Female Throwers, Male Runners Compete, Excel at Penn Relays | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...psychological nuance and journalistic detail. "They made it sound like I was out there with a notepad and a pith helmet," he says. But he started to doubt his own virtues. Sometimes he would take a kid from the projects into Manhattan, where the boy would be dazzled into numb silence by the place. "After a while I thought of myself as a big Thanksgiving float," he says. "The wind shifts, it hits a light pole, something falls off and kills three people down below. Then the wind shifts again, and the float just drifts off down the street." Those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bad in Goodness | 4/20/2003 | See Source »

...corrosive effects on local law enforcement agencies, already stretched well beyond their budgets, as officers were forced by the heightened alert level to work even longer hours. FBI officials were also concerned that a protracted alert could erode the color-coded system's credibility with the public, leaving people numb to true danger signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Threat Level Was Lowered | 2/27/2003 | See Source »

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