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...Supermassive Black Hole,” “Apocalypse Please.” Once in a great while, as with their cover of “Feeling Good,” a curve ball might crop up, but for the most part, Muse sing about one thing: the end of the world.A theme that big requires music of a similar scale to prop it up. For Muse, that means crunching guitar riffs and driving base lines overlaid with Matt Bellamy’s operatic, choirboy-gone-bad falsetto. When all these elements come together, Muse songs can be sublime...
...make the old recipes sing again, Alléno and Terroirs d'Avenir found the last producers of many of Ile-de-France's traditional vegetables, spices and meats: l'aspèrge d'Argenteuil, a sublime variety of violet-tipped asparagus, today produced by a single family; champignons de Paris, the mushrooms first grown in Paris catacombs (but today more often imported from China); Gâtinais saffron, once considered the world's finest; Mereville watercress; Pontoise cabbage; and Meaux-brie cheese...
...nearly time to sing Happy Birthday to the Troubled Asset Relief Program. But few seem ready to don their party hats to cheer the plan that Congress approved nearly a year ago, giving the Treasury authority to spend up to $700 billion to rescue the nation's ailing banks...
Direct government influence is not out of the question in modern Italy, either. In June, Berlusconi urged companies not to buy space in publications "that sing the songs of dissatisfaction and catastrophe" - a reference to newspapers covering the salacious allegations surrounding the Prime Minister's personal life. "Would this be accepted in any other corner of the world?" asks Levi. "The Prime Minister telling companies where to place their...
...voice, once likened to a "laser beam that can knife through an orchestra," had its technical shortcomings. But her talent as an actress more than made up for her sometimes ragged pitch. "I sing the beautiful parts as beautifully as I can, and if the character is screaming, I make it ugly," she said of portraying Richard Wagner's warrior-goddess Brnnhilde, one of her most memorable roles...