Word: sonic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scarcely has that rebellion been declared than someone else is declaring that the real rebellion is . . . conventionally understood ways of dressing. So this year's most up-to-the-minute design-wear house, X-Girl, owned by Kim Gordon of the rock band Sonic Youth, is hawking brightly colored tennis sweaters, polo shirts and floral-print shifts that hark back to the Lilly Pulitzers of the horsey set, circa 1973. "Our dresses are very country club," explains X-Girl's chief designer, Daisy Von Furth. "People are tired of finding the oldest, grungiest T shirt in a thrift store...
Fretwork produces a highly listenable recording, it a bit hypnotic at times. I must also admit a special fondness for some of the extra-musical sonic background of the hair on the bows against the strings. Rest assured, though, that if is not so much disconcerting as endearing...
...conceptual artist with a head for business." One would like to drag semiology in here too, for the Slickers never saw a text they couldn't subvert. But Jones' tactic was not deconstruction so much as demolition. His long-touring Musical Depreciation Revue was a frontal assault on sonic propriety. Even his nickname was an action verb, pithily expressing what the man did to music. He drove it into the ground, he impaled it on a drumstick, he laced it with aural rotgut, he deleted it from all genteel associations. He spiked...
...Sister," by Sonic Youth. This is one of the awesomest albums ever, and also Sonic Youth's best The first song, "Sister," is really great, as is the line "hotwire my heart." Kim Gordon is fabulous...
...class of genes -- to be called hedgehogs by convention -- that control a master switch in DNA molecules that tells cells whether they are to become skin, bone or muscle. The new genes are being named for hedgehog species, such as Indian and moonrat. One of them is even called Sonic, after the hedgehog hero of a popular video game...