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...shows were going off-topic, too many talking heads exclaiming over Mark McGwire and showing boredom with Monica Lewinsky. It was fear of increasing scandal fatigue that prompted Gingrich's biggest blunder of the campaign: devising, testing and spending $10 million on TV spots reminding voters of what a snake the President was--a subject the electorate was trying to forget...
...song with a blistering piano riff at the opening. Perry's morbid lyrics clashed with the upbeat music: "Shake, shake, shake and rattle-rattle them Dr. Bones," but you almost didn't notice as Perry leaped about the stage. This was followed later by the sleazy "Here Comes the Snake" which highlighted the sexual undertones lie beneath the band's songs...
...matter of time. A matter of time that is, before veteran horror master John Carpenter, the brains behind Halloween, Escape From New York and The Thing, would give in and take on the most enduring of all movie monsters--vampires. After dreaming up such characters as Michael Myers, Snake Plisken and Starman, there's no way Carpenter's career could have been complete without at least one film about bloodsuckers. The resulting effort is John Carpenter's Vampires, a piece of joyful, over-the-top, gonzo trash film-making that delights in wallowing in its own bloodbaths. Every vampire film...
...signal, recurring lesson of PJ Harvey's music, is that desire leads us dangerously, thirstily, curiously into places where we would otherwise fear to tread. Harvey's lyrics were too lacerating to be mere come-ons, but the potency and drama of her music worked like a snake charm. The album and the woman combined the terror and the wonder of a hydra...
...many different images that "they spend more and more money to get things done at the last minute." And, of course, employees often spend some of their work time idly surfing the Net or playing games. Clifford Stoll, an astronomer and systems manager in California and author of Silicon Snake Oil, draws this analogy: "Suppose a business said everyone on the sales force was getting a free deck of cards so that when they get bored they can play solitaire. Not going to happen, right? But if you give everyone on the sales force a $2,000 computer, you know...