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...fourth album, “Option Paralysis:” just as the song’s grindcore rendition of dial-up modem noise grows exhausting, the band breaks into a cascade of eerie acoustic guitar arpeggios. Then, after about 50 seconds of tranquility, they unleash a blinding squall of guitar riffage, while vocalist Greg Puciato changes his vocal style on almost a line-by-line basis...
...album defined MJ's style and sped him toward superstardom. The first single, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough," went to No. 1 and came with a fresh promotional tool: a music video, in which three Michaels appear onscreen to perform some intricate steps. It was the squall of an audiovisual genre that Jackson would shape and dominate...
Once at sea, the activists - who include an 81-year old nun, a Greek leftist parliamentarian and the sister-in law of ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair - braved a squall and a bizarre communications blackout, which they say was caused by lsraeli electronic jamming, and which thwarted a rendezvous in heaving seas between peace activists and a ship of journalists...
...working-class TV offers a fantasy of authenticity. On NBC, an American Gladiator is a beefcake model in a unitard swinging his padded quarterstaff. (Read into "padded quarterstaff" whatever symbolism you like.) Cable's gladiators are paunchy guys with beards hauling ass to fell a tree or outrace a squall...
...squall of tearful regret...