Word: pushings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason the issue of persona and role-playing becomes oddly important on this album is the extreme emphasis placed on Stipe's voice. Most songs seem engineered so as to push Stipe's vocals right up to the front of the music, with the instrumentals forming a more distant, solid layer of background noise. Stipe's style and diction has also changed somewhat from previous albums. He sports a breathy, melodic fullness, especially on the single "E-bow the Letter," which is a departure from the stylized, wavery thinness on which his career was built. Certain pronunciations also seem peculiar...
Humans are, if inadvertently, still giving aid and comfort to the enemy. As people push farther and farther into the tropical rain forests of Africa and South America, the world's great reservoirs of microbial horrors, they come into contact with diseases that have been circulating among animals probably for centuries. And while diseases have been jumping from animals to humans throughout history (hantavirus, AIDS and Ebola are only three recent examples), it was not until this century that the bugs could take advantage of jet-age transportation to leave the jungle and travel to hundreds or thousands of people...
...public now sees all, but knows less. We push ourselves and our cameras through the doors of barns and living rooms and coffee shops in Iowa and New Hampshire, and dozens of us capture a politician talking to a single petrified farmer or shopkeeper or housewife. And every word that candidate utters has been polled and market-tested until nothing fresh remains. We brought conventions into living rooms across America, and every trace of honest disagreement, every hint of personal eccentricity has long since been banished from the halls. We throw floodlights into the press rooms after debates...
...them, and he wishes society would honor them more. "I can't accept," he says, "that we're helpless to save our families and our society without some new federal program or regulation." As individuals and through voluntary associations, he says, paraphrasing novelist Flannery O'Connor, we must push back as hard as the age that pushes against...
...commission decided not to push for full landmark status for Grendel's and Tweeter Etc. Instead, it agreed to have certain "preservation restrictions" placed on the property. These restrictions give the city about the same level of control over changes to the exterior of the building, and give the developer special tax breaks as an incentive for agreeing to the restrictions...