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...trait. His grandfather Al Hansen was a member of the European artists' collective Fluxus, which specialized in Dadaist performance pieces. But Beck draws inspiration from contemporary sources too. "Brando was in some movie"--1996's The Island of Dr. Moreau--"where he's in a white gown, white face paint, and he's wearing a hat that's an ice bucket, and there's a midget dressed exactly like him on his shoulder," he says. "And he's acting like it's Shakespeare! But it threw me. He's fearless, and I think every artist should embrace a certain amount...
Beck has produced a few face-paint moments of his own over the years, and they have mostly come when he has toyed with acoustic material. Mutations, the album most similar to Sea Change, has several songs that sound exotic, clever and conspicuously weird, as if Beck were doing an emotional experiment rather than summoning actual feelings. ("Puritans stare, their souls are fluorescent/The skin of a robot vibrates with pleasure" went one particularly opaque Mutations lyric.) But Sea Change feels distilled from real tears, and the sonic intensity is helped in part by Beck's physical maturation. His singing voice...
...using the moralistic language of international law. Preoccupied with voicing their increasingly shrill demands that the United States consult the U.N., France, Russia, Germany and the rest of the gang apparently missed the fact that Iraq is not in compliance with several Security Council resolutions. Bush was able to paint himself as the champion of internationalist legitimacy and corral his allies at the same time...
...inability to draw or paint concerns me, as I am often misunderstood in both the written and visual media. Particularly, I feel that I may have a better chance on dates if I learned to work with oils on canvas. Verbal debacles could be avoided and she, at the very least, would leave with a souvenir of the evening...
Dramatically spotlighted and showroom shiny, the CBI Magnum Force 4000 attracts a crowd at the Las Vegas Convention Center. CALIFORNIA ROAD LEGAL, a placard practically snarls, and men who were once machine-crazy boys gape at the 4000's sleek profile and jazzy racing-yellow paint job, and also at its 60-in. discharge conveyor, hydraulically powered swing-away anvil and bolt-on wear liner. Did somebody say "features"? This 51-ft.-long, 74,000-lb. $489,000 monster lives to "process large volumes of wood waste to a fine uniform mulch," according to a sign...