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...purchase Teen Beat 96 Exploder, you are well and truly lost to the oversuspicious, cynical minimalism that will damn this generation, if anything does, permanently and without respite. I admit it: this record rung my bell. Next week you, and I, will get to see if the new Pavement CD does...
...rifles on their hips; when a youth, stealing scrap metal from a roof, waves a stick around, these troops pronounce him a "sniper" and shoot at him. The young man flees, and is chased through the small alleys and homes of Belfast; meanwhile, its inhabitants beat the walls and pavement with trash can lids to raise an alarm. Soon a riot has been provoked, and English tanks and soldiers careen through the streets. The young man who started this uproar is Gerry Conlon...
...Sunday not long ago, several members of the fledgling organization circumnavigated Fresh Pond's pavement path in search of winged wildlife. Varying in age from freshman to senior, each birder was dressed for the part--warm, sturdy clothing, sleek binoculars and a copy of The Field Guide to North American Birds. Co-captain of the team Allen Hutcheson '95 also sported a duck call. "They're not standard equipment," he said...
...English and physical therapy, is happy working at the store. Taking advantage of a break in the rush of customers, she slips outside to light up. Exhaling slowly, the smoke runs out in a steady stream, casting transient patterns into the dark air. She flicks the cigarette onto the pavement, momentarily contemplative. "Treat Store 24 with respect," Bonnie concludes seriously, "we're people too. I'm not in college, I'm working but that's not my fault...
Frances Gumm, which has toured with Pavement (and now is based in St. Paul) developed a simpler sound you could duplicate night after night, show after show: short songs, no jazz, no instrumentals, with the melody locked up in the jumpy bass lines. Eric, the singer, started singing as if his lungs were being torn from his body and his liver ripped apart by vultures every time the two-line choruses began. Cruella is therefore one of the year's most emotionally wrenching rock records, if you can get used to the singing; the whole package reminds...