Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trip-hop, an arty European variant of hip-hop characterized by dreamy lyrics and lounging, lulling song structures. Portishead is another stellar work. While Dummy's sound was sweetened with recognizable melodic flavors drawn from R. and B. and gospel, the new album is stranger, more unsettling, more sour. Vocalist Beth Gibbons' voice is distorted on many of the tracks, stretched thin and left floating high and parched over shards of melody and jagged bits of rhythm. One song, All Mine, has a sound that might be described as big-band noir, with blaring horns and desperate, almost manic vocals...
Quite a menu we had this week ? frozen eggs, cold coffee and grilled Reno. Sauteed with slashed pork and steamed lightly with a last-minute Japanese trade war, it left something of a sour taste in the mouth...
Suddenly, what had unraveled for the Harvard field hockey team in the past was clicking on Saturday. Suddenly, the team (4-4, 2-1 Ivy) rocked back to .500, extended its winning streak to two games and jettisoned the sour results of past contests with a 1-0 thriller over Pennsylvania...
...Palm Pilot" digital planners package everything from Tokyo time to Bobby Fisher's chess strategies in an efficient bundle of computer chips the size of your average remote control. Much like the coveted television accessory, however, the rare compu-planners have become sour status symbols, as misunderstood as the channel changer left for dead in a garbage can when its batteries...
That statement, from an interview published just last week, is now tragic, and piercingly sour. In trying to be a woman, she remained a target. Because of the hungry economics of voyeurism, her sons have no mother. At 36, of fame and fatal injuries, Lady Diana Spencer is dead...