Word: paled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Castle is an unlikely home for a world dictator. Although posh and secluded, the compound's pale pink boxlike villas look altogether drab in this city of tycoons and high rollers. On Saturday, a few shirtless residents smoked cigarettes on balconies, clotheslines suspended from the railings. Potted plants unevenly line the estate's walls - behind them, perhaps, lies a vital part of the exit strategy of Robert Mugabe, the President of impoverished Zimbabwe...
...ethusiasm. Some say that it was because they signed with Interscope. Some say that it was because Neil Busch, bassist and electro-noise maker, left the band. Some say that “Source Tags & Codes” was so perfect that anything that came after it would naturally pale in comparison. Whatever the case may be, Trail of Dead has been in a slump for the past seven years. The latest release from them, however, is a solid effort that combines elements of noise-rock and headbang-inducing guitar riffs, which may just bring Trail of Dead back into...
...Elsewhere, a group of schoolgirls in pale pink coats and hijabs performed a combination of martial arts and dance moves to a techno version of a marching song. They were followed on the stage by Tom & Jerry and a moderator who offered a prize for the right response to a quiz question: "Where did the Imam [Khomeini] deliver his first speech?" There were at least a dozen wrong guesses before someone ventured, "At the airport...
...previous album’s triumphant “For Reverend Green,” but quickly eschews that juggernaut’s bipolar conceit in search of sunny pop-hooks.Maybe it’s this sort of decision that makes “Merriweather Post Pavilion” pale slightly next to “Strawberry Jam.” While that album crystallized the psychological depths of Animal Collective’s music—however inscrutable and contradictory those depths may be—many of the album’s brightest moments still feel relatively sterile compared...
...rarely been out of the spotlight, amid speculation on the future of the broadcaster's public funding, scandals over mismanaged phone-in competitions and red faces after footage of the Queen was wrongly edited to suggest she had stormed out of a photo shoot. Yet all of these controversies pale in comparison to the storms of anger now battering the BBC over its refusal to show an appeal for humanitarian aid for the people of war-ravaged Gaza...