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...first track on the EP starts with a minute of static morse-code dashes which flicker in like a weak TV signal, then coagulate into a discrete pulse of white noise. An electronic church bell chimes in the distances. Then the whole soundscape explodes into a furious riot of 130-plus beat per-minute drums, thrash-synth and Trent Reznor's ragged vocals. The song zaps into silence four and a half minutes later...
However, Southerners are not alone. Stuffed-up yawning Northerners have been moping around campus as well. Elizabeth S. Ratner '96, a New Yorker, says she was alerted to her ill status by swollen glands and a sore throat. "It's been pretty static and is peaking right now at a pretty low level of congestion," Ratner says...
...excursions to the local bar, the corner grocery store and Jimmy's house, and the movie starts to drag about-three-quarters of the way through. Jimmy and Jon never change--they never grow out of their loud, boisterous behavior. The emotional texture of the film is relatively static and ultimately disappointing--a brusque, volatile, not at all delicately calibrated atmosphere dominates...
...going skydiving. Static line jumping, mind you, not accelerated free fall or anything fancy like that. In static jumping, the main ripcord is attached to the plane, automatically opening the canopy at the beginning of the fall. (That's how the theory goes, at least...
...delicacy of Stone's presentations and the litany of stores and communities that have survived Wal-Mart, there is a brooding inevitability about the data in Stone's studies. Small communities of static population sooner or later lose business from their downtowns to Wal-Mart, which sinks its roots at their edges. Surrounding communities with no Wal-Mart are devastated. Independent stores in growing areas generally rise with the tide even with Wal-Mart scooping up a big share...