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...pregnant girlfriend, Horace falls victim to the flu. There is a death in the family, and a birth. In Harrison, though, life's scars are hidden under high collars and good manners. If these folks keep their thoughts to themselves, it is partly because they are too genteel to scream...
Although it's fronted by a Frenchman, the Stranglers used to thrash harder and scream louder than almost any other band. But Jean-Jacques Burnel, the vocal power behind the band, anticipated the swing of the gustatory pendulum on their album, IV, alienating some of their hardcore spikes-n-nails support. Aural Sculpture, the Strangler's latest, completes their metamorphosis from outraged punk outcasts to ingratiating pop insiders...
Finger on the button, eye glued to the viewfinder, he crouches there, trying to imitate a fireplug's unobtrusiveness while putting a frame around inchoate reality. But much as one admires the discipline of the cinema verite cameraman, sooner or later there comes a time when one wants to scream at him, "Stop being a camera! Start being a human being!" There are many of these moments in Streetwise, a film by Director-Cameraman Martin Bell, Mary Ellen Mark and Cheryl McCall, about adolescents adrift on the streets of Seattle. The first, surely, is when Erin, one of the principal...
Then the oracle is spoken. That god of all gods, accuweather meteorologist Rich Heller, describes the prevailing weather patterns. As he patiently explains the day in terms of barometric pressure, cool fronts and zonal flows. I feel my blood rising. Finally, I can stand it no longer. "Spring!" I scream as I throw the phone clear across the room in disgust. "Spring!" I scream as my roommate sleepily pokes her head from she bedroom. Still raving, I run from the room. In the distance a neutral voice repeats again and again: "Have a good day, and thank you for calling...
...appeal of drugs, beyond the immediate physical sensation, is that they give one a license to be irresponsible. One is part of a spectacle, and it is permitted to break things, to scream, and to say "I love you" without consequence. When we attend a spectacular divestment rally and applaud the speakers who bash Harvard and Derek Bok the hardest, we aren't being irresponsible, rather the reverse. It is only when we go home and turn to more pressing concerns that we become irresponsible, because we go back to being that very Harvard we were bashing a few hours...