Word: skies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Within the next minute, in some small town, a clueless 14-year-old will slip white shoes onto her black-stockinged legs, and no one will stop her. No leonine six-footer will swoop down from the sky to grab the pumps from her pudgy little feet and rescue her from fashion disaster. No, the skies are empty today. Because the supermodel is dead...
...simple joy of melody, wittily phrased; think of "S'Wonderful," a song whose lyrics would be silly if its music were not really so wonderful. For the Beatles, it might be mundane working-class life appreciated for all of its unique, fantastical truth--take "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," which reshapes ordinary objects into a stunning psychedelic spectacle...
...Craig works extremely hard and is a great player," Storey says. "He will definitely play professional hockey one day. The sky's the limit when you know how to work hard, and Craig definitely knows how to work...
...grand spectacles of nature: gorges, waterfalls, rain forests, mountains. It also had disasters, one of which was recorded by Piguenit (1836-1914) in the most striking of his paintings, The Flood in the Darling 1890, 1895, with its biblical waste of waters spreading beneath a leaden but vivaciously painted sky...
R.E.M. at its best is a band that you sleepwith playing on your stereo, that you have in thebackground when a couple friends are over justhanging out or that you sing with when the sky isclear and the stars are low. Even R.E.M.'s "happy"songs like "Shiny Happy People" and "Stand" seemto cross over the line of carefree pop into amulti-faceted festival. Up proves that R.E.M.hasn't lost it; "it" just went on vacation overthe past six years or so. The band is different,but they've recaptured their old glory and that iswhy "the all-new R.E.M...