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...tracks here unfold at a tempered pace; the songs take their time, but the process is by no means leisurely. Instead, tension builds as the sound expands, often reaching pitches of dizzying intensity. “Auto Rock,” the album’s opener, constructs a steady crescendo around a spare piano melody, adding fuzzy distortion and a heavy, insistent beat. The result may be melodramatic, but it’s also nothing less than beautiful...
Despite his chance meetings with cliché character types along the way (a sour wife bent on divorce, a rebellious teenage daughter, an old friend offering sound advice), Keaton sustains the movie’s tension when he has to choose between attending opening night of his play or Game 6 of the Series...
...example. the opener Margaret vs. Pauline, a story about two young women: one graceful, with "an ingot in her breast to burn cool and collected," the other unfocused and resentful, whose "jaw aches from wanting." The closing lyrics are as close as Case gets to explaining the fierce tension one woman feels for the other. ("Two girls walk down the same street/ One left a sweater sitting on the train and the other lost three fingers at the cannery.") Case's stories, however, are first and foremost about sentiments and characters, not the concrete events that shaped them...
...lyrics over prerecorded beats, rap is already the most explicitly historical form of popular music; enough intertextuality to make Barthes blush—whether in quoted rhymes, posse shout-outs or P-Funk samples—is a constitutive element of the rapper’s craft. The tension between lyrical innovation and “respect for the culture” allows Nas to decry “a rhymebiter’s rthyme” on his debut album Illmatic, while still drawing lyrical nourishment from idols like Rakim. Whether Vanilla Ice or Black Eyed Peas, pop outsiders...
...changes, such as the hiring of a new staff. If the Dubai episode prods Americans into a more active role in investigating commercial-port operations (one proposed law would ban foreign-government ownership of key port facilities), Canada's comparatively laid-back approach toward ownership could lead to new tension across the border...