Word: numb
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...stuff is the easy part of the aging game; what's harder is performing the various tasks Chutka demands of the students, like reading the labels on a vast array of prescription containers when you're wearing goggles, or counting out the daily ration of pills with fingers rendered numb by a sheath of glove rubber. Near the course's end, the students are placed in a mock nursing home, where other students, trained to act like ward attendants, fail to bring them their food, or shove spoonfuls of apple sauce into mouths rendered immobile by the marshmallows or ignore...
...test is not so much a test of knowledge but a test of stamina," Kiprilov says. "They really numb you up with all those exercises and all those full-length exams that you have no choice but to let go of the stress...
...draws on folk and rock, and some of her songs are subtly propelled by tape loops. Her voice has an evanescent grace that will remind some of Beth Orton; her lyrics, in contrast, often have the confessional bluntness of Liz Phair. The best songs on this album--the sweetly numb title track, the jangling All I Want--are dreamlike but not soporific, confident yet not overpowering...
Some said they felt numb after giving their theses away...
Penn plays with rhymes, performing lyrical slight of hand to grab the listener and keep him interested. In "Lucky One," the lead single, Penn takes a tongue-in-cheek look at modern culture, singing that "I must be the lucky one/The luckiest in Luckydom/Who reached the moon/But wound up numb." These lyrics swim in a carpet of strong drums, guitars and a piano, creating an infectious song that will have you humming for days...