Word: primally
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...away from this record without feeling that one has been in the presence of an exceptionally compassionate, tactile individual. The songs speak of serendipity, optimism and love, and many of them have people's names in the title; for Williams, making connections and spreading good karma is clearly as primal an urge as making music, and is actually undistinguishable therefrom. One of the album's major achievements is that it's able to dispense unrelenting good vibes ("hopeful joy is joy for all," she sings at one point) without becoming unbearably cloying, and Williams' well-publicized struggle with multiple sclerosis...
...still a surprise, for people used to the immaculate technical refinement of S?vres or Wedgwood, to see the lack of finish of Koetsu tea bowls. Slumped, pitted, cratered, they seem to preserve the primal character of the earth from which they're made. They're so uneven that you'd think they'd wobble if set on a table. Instead of pattern or fine painting, their surfaces are all drips and cracks that, contemplated in the dim natural light of the teahouse, may suggest large natural events. One of the most beautiful bowls in this show, black glaze...
...into a shirtless, bearded man, screaming and cursing at him for authorizing $30,000 for a satellite uplink. They approach Harvey for adjudication, the bearded guy pleading his case. "I don't have time for this now," Harvey says without looking up. They walk away, calmed. "It's a primal symbol," he says, picking up where he left off. "A metaphor for our own fragile life...
...Gore and Lieberman's favorite band was more likely the Beatles than his own Bon Jovi, announced their choice. The three teamed up on a powerful rendition of John Lennon's 1968 political proclamation "Revolution." Not the genteel doo-wop version from the White Album? but the full-blooded primal-scream arrangement of the single. In its original (pre-Nike-jingle) incarnation, the song had been a watershed, and defined which side of the barricades one stood on. Though Crow and Kravitz were still in the toddler and pre-embryonic stage respectively in 1968, they had absorbed its relevance...
...types and there were non-sporting types." But Costantoura uncovered a surprising degree of overlap. Of those surveyed, 78% agreed that "people can enjoy the arts in the same way that they enjoy sport." While followers of Shakespeare or Shirvington might beg to differ, both arenas offer audiences a primal ritual, says Costantoura: "It's the vicarious struggle of the hero. Will they succeed or will they fail...