Word: rockers
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...Cologne, Bono and his fellow Irish rocker Bob Geldof had an audience with Blair. Bono says that Blair was "the first head of state with whom we didn't have to argue that debt cancellation was not about charity, but justice." (Campbell remembers the meeting a little differently. Blair, he writes in his diaries, said debt relief was like Mount Everest. Bono replied, "When you see Everest, Tony, you don't look at it, you f___ing climb it.") I had breakfast with Blair in his hotel room the next morning, anxious to know how the talks on Kosovo...
...nothing to do with Dion's selection, which was made in 2005. Nor is there anything new in the Legion inducting honorees whose selection induces a blanching response among people of taste. While professional cynics such Porte lavishly mock a national joke (and Sarkozy pal) such as wrinkled rocker Johnny Hallyday enjoying Legion membership, they energetically defend Jerry Lewis deserving the same honor. Similarly, while some argue that actor G?rard Depardieu has done more than enough to merit his selection, it's difficult to find anyone in France who even knows who kitsch artist Jeff Koons is - much less...
...strange, watery atmosphere, before building strength and catapulting skyward into symphonic ecstasy. The song’s coda grips urgently, with organs piling on climbing guitars, then slips away, ghostlike. Before there’s time to process the transition, the Keys start storming again, with the sinewy, unhinged rocker “I Got Mine.” “Strange Times,” probably the most effective example of the band’s collaboration with Danger Mouse, alternately crunches and swoons, with ethereal wails and flourishes interspersed between Auerbach’s explosive riffs...
...Rocker, $285-$385 This elegant twist on the bentwood chair comes in a chic dark stain...
...insanity.The undeniable power of the first song would have been enough to justify the Seeds’ dramatic shift in sound, but the album brandishes ten more tracks burning on the same brand of fuel. “Today’s Lesson,” a road-trip rocker, surges along on a foreboding bass riff while Cave croons about lust and violence jumping from dreams to the waking world. “Night of the Lotus Eaters” perverts the myth of a Mediterranean cult of hallucinogen-gorging island dwellers, casting them as post-apocalyptic street hunters...