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Heaney’s most striking characteristic is his depth and precision of personal expression. His ability to fluidly summon up whatever phrase or muse fits the moment betrays an artistic keenness that as a rule, college students are only beginning to acquire...
...Where is My Mind?”) just plain silly. Particularly excessive is the disc’s final, whopping, fifteen-minute version of “Planet of Sound,” which expands the whirlwind-punch of the two-minute original into a lumbering hurricane (the phrase “fucking around” is repeated over forty-two times). With a few debatable moments, none of these songs is really better than the original version, and though Disc Two has more for a non-devotee to appreciate than Disc One, Frank Black Francis is ultimately at heart...
...When I’m going somewhere, I say to a friend, ‘If I don’t call you by this time, and say this exact phrase, call the police, I’m in danger,’” he says. “The BDSM community focuses a lot on safety...
...award-winning 1996 short, the filmmaker, trained at Melbourne's Swinburne school, found improbable lightness in the dark fable of a boy and his autistic sister at the turn of last century. With Father's Den, he sets a match to New Zealand's "cinema of unease," the phrase coined by Sam Neill to describe the country's love affair with darkness. "I need a cigarette to cope with this kind of scenery," says Paul at one point. So, too, might audience-goers, so slowly and inexorably are they pulled into McGann's web of darkness - and light...
Starting in 2001, Nike coined a new phrase for its China marketing, borrowing from American black street culture: "Hip Hoop." The idea is to "connect Nike with a creative lifestyle," says Frank Pan, Nike's current director of sports marketing for China. The company's Chinese website even encourages rap-style trash talk. "Shanghai rubbish, you lose again!" reads a typical posting for a Nike League high school game. The hip-hop message "connects the disparate elements of black cool culture and associates it with Nike," says Edward Bell, director of planning for Ogilvy & Mather in Hong Kong. "But black...