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...agroup of pelvic-thrusting dancers scrambling andflinging each other around the stage. Althoughthis segment is more mine than dance, "Thunder" isat its best during the highly choreographedinstances when the uninhibited dancers execute afast-paced and dramatic range of movements. One ofthe best pieces follows Prince's well-known"Purple Rain." Valerie Madina performs a solo in aclown costume with her face painted afrighteningly glowing white. Every facialexpression of hers deepens into amazingly dramaticemotion and the intensity surges through her body,wrenched with pain and torment...
...Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow will stop the U.S. Postal Service, but it takes whole lot less to slow the University Mail Service (UMS) to a craswl. It would seem, given instances of mail taking over a week to arrive from just 35 miles away, that the UMS is making it as difficult as possible to be a young man or woman of letters...
...normal movement is from rain, to sleet, to snow," he said, warning that there would be more snow before the end of the storm midmorning today...
...Crooked Rain, two fundamental changes have taken place: first of all, Gary is gone, supposedly amicably, replaced by a less flamboyant drummer named Steve West. And other musicians who previously only accompanied the three on live tours are now given performance credit. There's no reason why this must be a change for the worse, but the songs seem to lack the focus of earlier work. At times they should half-hearted; I wonder if a dispersal of creative control has led to this...
...friends seem to be having the same experience. (One just walked out the room, saying, "This has grown on me, a ton.") Malkmus has become addicted to REM (covering "Camera" on a b-side and writing a silly tribute to them for No Alternative) and Crooked Rain features a few gorgeous pastoral tunes--"Range Life" and "Gold Soundz" in particular--that are a million times better than anything Mssrs. Stipe, Buck, Berry and Mills have produced in years. The excellent opener, "Silence Kid," a message to a shy little boy who shouldn't listen to his grandmother's advice, seems...