Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crimson is a lot better than just plain red, don't you think...
Unfortunately, nothing on her new album comes close to this honesty and originality. Instead, as in much of her recent work, Mitchell writes trite stories of unconvincing relationships and reserves her passion to bemoan the corruption of society. All this isn't so much unpleasant as just plain flimsy. The best she can muster, for example, to explain societal degradation is to insist simplistically that "lawyers and loan sharks/are laying America to waste." There are small pleasures to be had on Taming the Tiger, like Mitchell's confidently unconventional melodies, her dark and smoke-ravaged voice and the occasional appearances...
...readers' scanning pleasure, here lies the quickie Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard Faculty Style. Six profs, five specialties and five ways to get some food, some liquor, some drama, some movie action, or to just plain get a little sumpin'-sumpin...
...global markets. At the peak of its borrowing, the secretive fund reportedly carried a debt load 100 times as great as its net assets, or ownership capital. This would be like putting down $1,000 of your own money to buy a $100,000 house--in a flood plain on the San Andreas fault. "Most hedge-fund managers believe that a leverage ratio in excess of 50 to 1 is exceptionally large and very risky," says Hunt Taylor, executive director of Tass Management, a hedge-fund consulting firm...
...that Catatonia still has that kick that so many American groups have lost these days: they make happy-making music. They sing "I put horse's heads in people's beds/Cause I am the mob" with perfect bubbliness. Mulder and Scully, Road Rage and Johnny Come Lately are just plain fun and catchy. Don't Need the Sunshine is, for lack of a better description, nicely undemanding. It's definitely sing-along material. Other songs are just forgettable...