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Nearly 2,000 miles away in Houston, over a plate of barbecued sausage and ribs, Treshman sounds like a sports analyst when he sizes up the Romalis shooting. "From a standpoint of tactics, it would be far better to get away, throwing fear in the hearts of others because you are still out there," he says, insisting all the while that he does not advocate violence...
...everyone is plugged into the Unplugged sound. Steve Albini, the combative producer of Nirvana's last studio album, In Utero, says record companies have seized on Unplugged as a way of repackaging old, previously recorded material. Already own the original? Now buy the unplugged version. "From an artistic standpoint, it's a total joke," says Albini. "You take bands that are fundamentally electric-rock bands and put acoustic guitars in their hands and make them do a pantomime of a front-porch performance. It's not an authentic reading of that music at all. It's like watching a water...
Before this time the idea of boredom was not necessary for an understanding of existence: athough people in the early 18th century may have led lives which from our standpoint would appear boring, they did not think of them as such. Spacks traces the term's appearance and development as conjunctive with evolving concepts of the individual's place in society. The religiosity and community of pre-modern times, which discouraged individualism, gradually gave way to the fragmentation and alienation of modernity and post-modernity, which encourages individualism...
...feel this unnatural peace," he says. "And when you look at it from a worldly standpoint, it really isn't the way I should be acting...
Newman agreed. "The most fair way from my standpoint is that the tenth person should be appointed," he said in an interview last night. "Another fair way would be to count all the ballots over again...