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...indeterminate future, you stand in a crowd in the Great Glass Elevator. Like all elevators, this one comes wired for sound—soulless, slick, electronic muzak. Yet something is not quite right—rather than being the irritatingly-pacifying background-stuff, it keeps sneaking into your frontal lobes with growls of distortion, electronic shrieks and incendiary little licks. As the elevator gathers pace, your colleagues strip off their suit-jackets and ties, and the elevator becomes a sky-rocketing disco?...
...first single from the album, the Stranglers’ “Strange Little Girl,” is the sort of quirky, electronic-influenced rock that Tori perfected on Venus, and will undoubtedly turn quite a few heads with its slick, sexy, guitar-driven hook. However, those who are drawn by this track alone will be deceived; though “Rattlesnakes” borders on the same territory, the bulk of the album explores radically different, uncharted ground. Her take on Tom Waits’ “Time,” is, despite the quantum difference...
...because of the fires. He was standing next to a guy who got hit by shrapnel and was immediately killed." Workers tore off their shirts to make bandages and tourniquets for the wounded; others used bits of clothing as masks to help them breathe. Whole stretches of street were slick with blood, and up and down the avenues you could hear the screams of people plunging from the burning tower. People watched in horror as a man tried to shimmy down the outside of the tower. He made it about three floors before flipping backward to the ground...
...because of the fires. He was standing next to a guy who got hit by shrapnel and was immediately killed." Workers tore off their shirts to make bandages and tourniquets for the wounded; others used bits of clothing as masks to help them breathe. Whole stretches of street were slick with blood, and up and down the avenues you could hear the screams of people plunging from the burning tower. People watched in horror as a man tried to shimmy down the outside of the tower. He made it about three floors before flipping backward to the ground...
...through the dialogues in Korean, watching actors nobody had heard of. Even Koreans preferred Hollywood fare. But the nation's cinema is rapidly emerging from the obscurity of the art-house circuit. A new crop of hip young directors and producers is turning out legitimate hits, like Shiri, a slick spy-action thriller, Friends, a sentimental buddy flick, and Ginkgo Bed, a funky exploration of relationships and reincarnation. Koreans are watching their own movies in record numbers?Korean films now pull in 40% of ticket sales, up from 25% three years ago. At more than $250 million, the box-office...