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...song that seems to work on all the levels U2 intended is "Moment of Surrender." Clocking in at more than seven minutes and moving with the deliberate shuffle of a man wandering empty streets, it gives Bono a shot to channel Sinatra at his loneliest. You can hear an organ and a cello and a lot of other sounds that are hard to pinpoint, but they gradually converge into a heartbreaking melody as Bono stares into the reflection of an ATM and discovers he can no longer recognize his own face. As the tune fades out, he lets loose another...
...presence. To the graybeards at the Academy, Jer is not only the demolisher of Oscar's gravitas but the unkillable specter of his first eminence, in the late '40s and '50s, as the goony kid prancing around the cool crooner. (One producer cruelly called Martin and Lewis "the organ grinder and the monkey"). He is the comic whose genius, or even the robust grosses of his movies, nobody in Hollywood took seriously. And because he was championed as an auteur in the pages of Cahiers du Cinema, Lewis's detractors have made him the derisive punch line to every joke...
...Organ Grinder and the Monkey...
...time. But even as he’s aged, he’s clung to his heavy electric guitars. There’s swirling distortion in “Mama Lay Softly On the Riverbed” that clashes with the vocals and squeezed-in synthesized organ. “All You Need is Me” ultimately manages to harmonize Morrissey’s fussy vocals with the backing guitars, but only after the initially heavy instrumentation is abandoned for lighter fare. Morrissey’s voice, thankfully, never duels with the powerful, profound chords, and he?...
...Kolff, who was one of the founders of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, encouraged scores of people to turn their attention to creating mechanical hearts, electronic devices that restore hearing and vision, artificial arms and more. He believed that bioengineering could one day provide a substitute for almost every organ in the body...