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Bats: I like to swing hard and for the pink team...
...evokes the place and the period with the skill of a Scorsese: it's a steaming Cuban sandwich of sultry Latin sirens, drug deals gone bad and seedy mobsters with big metal briefcases full of small unmarked bills. The city streets are awash with neon in candy pink and pistachio green, and each streetlight is ringed by a delicate nimbus suggesting warm, humid tropical air. The kicker is the painfully authentic all-1980s sound track (which will be released by Sony Music as a seven-CD set). Buy this game, and you will Wang Chung tonight...
...noon approached, buses of “ordinar y Americans” continued to arrive. The crowd swelled to 100,000, filling the grounds. Its demographics had changed. A group of pink-cheeked New Englanders bore a “Vermonters against the war” banner; church associations filed in with their own signs. A Dart mouth College contingent of about fifteen students landed, looking fresh off a ski trip. By early afternoon, the masses seemed to now be mostly young white professionals, retired couples, conservatively-dressed Muslim families pushing babystrollers, middle-aged people in anti-war T-shirts...
...even with time for only nine songs, the Lips elevated the audience with an array of gorgeous sounds and infectious power. As the title track from their new album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots kicked in, the entire crowd fell for frontman Wayne Coyne’s yearning cry, which was backed up by a visual extravaganza...
...occasionally make forays into Entertainment Weekly and, in true moments of weakness, People. It’s lately gotten so bad that I challenged my thesis advisor to a movie trivia standoff last week. He was good, I was better. Of course Jon Cryer played Duckie in Pretty in Pink...