Word: tenderness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Across four albums, Red House Painters have offered confused, despondent, tender love songs that seem less creations of music than excavations of the soul. A kind of gray, rainy day alternative folk; soundtracks to uninvited solitude between cold, stupid bedsheets. To watch them perform, while indignantly immured in a crowd, hovels away from the sacred gloomy-wombiness of the old bedroom, is a bittersweet and some-what discomfiting experience...
...most uptempo song on House of Music is the first single, "Let's Get Down," a funky, danceable track that features West Coast rapper DJ Quick interspersed between Saadiq's playful crooning. "Til Last Summer" is a tender ode to lost and found love with a soaring chorus that faintly echoes "It Never Rains...
...Janowski has spent most of her playing time on the blocks, at center and power forward, and so has had to play physically and aggressively despite a tender right eye and limited playing experience. Re-joining the team has been a difficult process after being out of game situations for so long...
Before I go any further, I must admit to a secret shame in my past--I almost joined the NRA when I was an impressionable youngster. I happened to be the Camp Mah-Kee-Nac riflery champion, and at the tender age of 12 all I knew about the NRA was that they supplied the cool patches that read "Marksman" and "Marksman First Class." I also knew that the riflery counselor, an ex-Marine named Leigh and a genuinely cool guy, was a member of the NRA. (Though even in my naivete I was a bit disturbed by his tendency...
...seems to substantiate the claim that Americans care less and less about scandals that have no effect on politics. American culture is one that thrives on sleaze in all forms. The success of such shows as "Hard Copy" and "A Current Affair" is testament to America's affinity for tender half-truths. But these shows' half-baked scandals are not on a par with Whitewater...