Word: polkas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Remember to Breathe deserves to cause a sensation. "On my record is everything I listen to," the Cleveland native says, "from a little bit of gospel, a little bit of folk, to rock and R. and B. If I listened to polka, it would be on the record too." And the mix works. Her rock numbers, like the aching Keep It a Secret and the joyful Love Trap, have edge, and they have soul. At her best, she's a bit like Juliana Hatfield with a small injection...
...metal chairs are housed between the two walls and a gabled pine-rafter roof. Beach ball-sizes models of the HIV virus hang from the gallery ceiling over the clinic's roof. These black balls, marked by a wood-cut print of the HIV virus's polka-dot structure, envelop patient, doctor, and visitor alike...
Moving on to lighter subjects, The Mollusk continues to build mini-stories around a whale and eel. Resembling The Beatles' "Octopus' Garden" a little too closely, "Polka Dot Tail" couples the eternal question "Have you ever seen a whale/With a polka dot tail" with "Have you ever tried to shrink/Like an ice cube in the sink." Apparently these are pertinent questions to the waterlogged minds of Ween's 11 band members. Exploring nothing musically or lyrically novel, "The Golden Eel" trudges through an unrevealing revelation: "Watching the eel/Help me find the way home...Daylight has come/I can not repeal/The words...
...description of artist Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project in Detroit [AMERICAN SCENE, Aug. 25], Ron Stodghill II noted that Heidelberg Street is festooned in polka dots. Stodghill said that neighbors weren't thrilled by other aspects of the project, including the thousands of old shoes displayed in the area. But support from neighborhood residents, local businesses and government groups far surpasses any dissatisfaction. The Heidelberg Project provides a stimulating, relatively safe stretch in Detroit's inner city where residents and visitors can play, create, learn, sit and think. Many of the artworks, constructed by Guyton with the help of children...
...summer to visit the Heidelberg Project and found myself standing in the middle of the street in awe of the beauty before me. The thousands of used shoes (soles) represent all the lost souls in Purgatory hoping for mankind's prayers to help them ascend to heaven. Guyton's polka-dot theme is seen everywhere, sending the message "I don't care what race you are, if you are black or white or even polka dot, God's love sees no colors." JUDITH ZABAWSKI Sterling Heights, Mich...