Word: ruthlessness
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While the lead singer is emoting, or not, the band is grooving with a ruthless efficiency. Is This It was criticized for mining riffs from Television, the Velvet Underground and Iggy Pop, and there's no ignoring the influences when drummer Fabrizio Moretti (also known as Drew Barrymore's boyfriend; I told you there were many reasons to hate these guys) bangs out a snare fill that would make the Zeppelins' John Bonham bolt upright in his grave. But the Strokes don't agonize over their influences; they synthesize them. And songs like 12:51 and Between Love & Hate...
...exposed and humiliated General Motors C.E.O. Roger Smith as a depraved corporate crook in Roger and Me and publicly lambasted Nike C.E.O. Phil Knight as a supporter of child labor in The Big One. This is a guy whose entire career has been defined by an unabashed and ruthless brand of Leftist principle (often at the expense of unprepared corporate officials and conservative bureaucrats), someone who represents moral outrage and progressive idealism, not pragmatic politics...
...clearer and for a moment he aches in a surprisingly moving way. With his half-closed eyes and half-closed heart, Casablancas is the closest thing there is to a rock-'n'-roll Bogart. While the lead singer is emoting, or not, the band is grooving with a ruthless efficiency. Is This It was criticized for mining riffs from Television, the Velvet Underground and Iggy Pop, and there's no ignoring the influences when drummer Fabrizio Moretti (also known as Drew Barrymore's boyfriend; I told you there were many reasons to hate them) bangs out a snare fill that...
...Siddhartha non-violently disarms the ruthless Bandaka in "Buddha...
...well. Ciaran Hinds as John Traynor, Guerin’s inside source, effectively conveys a sense of struggle as he finds himself torn between his loyalty to Guerin and to the world of crime, while Gerard McSorley as drug lord John Gilligan delivers a chilling performance as a ruthless, calculating criminal...