Word: surrealness
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...rhythmic bass throb of funk and the bleary-eyed cocktail electronica of trip-hop. The product is anything but tired; on Sylvie, for example, the rueful, cosmopolitan irony of the lyric is offset completely by a glowing arrangement. The overlay of subtle syncopations and retro instrumentation makes the song surreal and engaging, like a chance meeting with Burt Bacharach after hours at a chic London nightclub. Some might call this kitsch, but emotional immediacy and sheer musical complexity make the song and the album awfully hard not to enjoy, like the charming early work of the Cardigans (emmerdale, Life), which...
...crack smoker (well, O.K., pick another drug). But by the mid-'90s, the roofs on many city schools were caving in. Thousands of people were dying of AIDS, but management was so abysmal that millions in federal AIDS dollars sat unspent. At perhaps the city's saddest, most surreal moment, morgue officials said they didn't have enough money to refrigerate the dead. Outraged residents--even some hard-core Barryites--began to demand change. Finally, Congress and the White House stepped in, and over the next few months most of the powers of the mayor, city council and school board...
...their direction at a time when leadership is desperately needed to pull the global economy out of its tailspin. If confidence lies at the heart of finance, Russia stands as a metaphor for how much of it has been lost. Instead of propping each other up at this most surreal of summits, the two key Presidents seemed to be dragging each other down. Clinton's lackluster public performance only seemed to emphasize the feeble condition of his host country. Yeltsin's failing faculties and crumbling power base reflected badly on the strong backing the U.S. has given...
...American citizen to try to imagine what he would do if confronted by the squalid and surreal choice facing his President: stonewall or confess. One person--one only--made the disgusting mess: Bill Clinton. Let him find...
...moment, a perfect distillation of a surreal time, is Clinton's greatest performance and his greatest triumph. He has done it again...