Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although it looks like just another stately residence on a quiet, tree-lined block minutes from Harvard Square, the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow House, at 105 Brattle Street, is a treasure-chest of American history...
...sends out negative ions to grab hold of the pollutants. Unlike other filters, it has a charged metal strip to lure them back in--no noisy fan or motor. It takes longer to freshen a room, but finicky types might find it well worth the extra peace and quiet...
...unfortunately, similar trends begin to appear in different songs. The bass line found in "Cruel" catches the listener's ear once again in "iieee," giving the album a disappointing aura of deja vu before it is even halfway listened to. "Black Dove (January)," the first of the album's quiet numbers, bears short chorus that immediately brings to mind the song "Past the Mission" from Under the Pink...
...magnificent cliffs of the Palisades and the olive green waters of the Hudson. He lived with Caroline Costello, who had been deeply in love with him since their undergraduate years at Yale, and continued to love him in spite of his illness. They were ideal tenants. They were quiet neighbors. They were engaged to be married. She was talking to a rabbi about converting to Judaism, her lover's faith. And she had become pregnant. Then, last Wednesday, Costello was stabbed more than 10 times with a chef's knife...
...this fragmented land, the narrator must cope with his fragmented household. "So broken was my father's family," he claims, "that it felt to me like a catastrophe you could live with only if you kept it quiet," but native childish curiosity drives him to push for answers. His father's family, with its tragic breakup and its missing brother, who may or may not have been an IRA hero, holds a score of riddles, and his mother's, which is mysteriously bound to his father's by more than their marriage, is just as puzzling. No adult will speak...