Word: poignant
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...samples: the former remixed Blue Note’s back catalog in Shades of Blue and fashioned himself a rapper on helium by essentially sampling and speeding up his own voice in Quasimoto’s The Unseen; the latter reworked tacky Eighties hits and cartoon themes into eerily poignant hooks on Operation Doomsday. Both are bold enough to let their music get lost within the crates...
...creation of one of the most enduring, least endearing antiheroes in Hollywood cartoon history. What follows comes from studying the Cohen book, rerunning my favorites from Geisel's mid-period film work, and watching Peter Jones' excellent two-hour special for A&E's "Biography," which contains much poignant data about the artist's life that I've left...
...Tony Soprano was supposed to be on. Determined to go straight, "Tony B." is driving a linen-delivery truck while working to become a licensed massage therapist. It sounds like comic relief, and in a way it is, but Tony B., clinging to his modest dream, is also a poignant figure, Tony Soprano's sad-sack but decent alter...
...Thunder? was just right, even to the point where, second time around, she was trying hands-in-the-air, at least when heading into the turns. I think roller coasters are useful measuring sticks in a young person?s life, and I, as a dad, found it poignant that my little Caroline could now handle ?Big Thunder.? I am pleased that ?Splash Mountain? is still too much, and that Jack and Mary Grace are still too little to reach the 40 inches required for either ride, never mind ?Space Mountain.? Jack and Mary Grace loved ?Dumbo,? and I, an adult...
...four underage undergraduates, Chen announced his intention to close the superette’s doors forever if his liquor license is suspended for more than a few days. Like the change in College diplomas from Latin to English, the end of Louie’s would signify the poignant passing of an era in Harvard lore...