Word: sprawlingly
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True, little new ground is covered in Guero—but since when has “new” categorically meant “better”? As long as there exist listeners who prefer sea glass to plate glass, urban decay to suburban sprawl, and redux to deluxe, Beck will maintain a corps of loyal fans. “My shivering voice is singing through a crack in the window, I’d better go it alone,” Beck murmurs. No need, Beck. We’re still here...
True, little new ground is covered in Guero—but since when has “new” categorically meant “better”? As long as there exist listeners who prefer sea glass to plate glass, urban decay to suburban sprawl, and redux to deluxe, Beck will maintain a corps of loyal fans. “My shivering voice is singing through a crack in the window, I’d better go it alone,” Beck murmurs. No need, Beck. We’re still here...
...danger, if this trend continues, is that people will withdraw within their walled communities and never venture again into the Internet's public spaces. It's a process similar to the one that created the suburbs and replaced the great cities with shopping malls and urban sprawl. The magic of the Net is that it thrusts people together in a strange new world, one in which they get to rub virtual shoulders with characters they might otherwise never meet. The challenge for the citizens of cyberspace -- as the battles to control the Internet are joined and waged -- will...
...early February - the task it faces is huge. Civil war and the lack of an effective central government have left Somalia splintered into a mosaic of clan-based fiefdoms. Two mini-states in the north have broken away, though no country recognizes their independence. In the Mogadishu suburbs that sprawl around the devastated old quarter, donkey carts and machine gun-fitted pickups compete for passage on sand-swept streets. Militias still clash regularly and murders and kidnappings are common. Public infrastructure is almost nonexistent. Returning Somalia to its prewar status will take billions of dollars, according to Maxwell Gaylard...
Oberst doesn't lend himself well to sound bites, however. Both of the aforementioned songs are nearly 500 words long, and like Dylan tunes, they sprawl and ramble and seem to rhyme (but don't) in lots of strange places. Their effects build over time, which makes quoting individual lyrics from them a little beside the point--though if forced, I would choose these lines from Landlocked Blues: "The future hangs over our heads, and it moves with each current event/ Until it falls all around like a cold steady rain, just stay in when it's looking this...