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...these two albums is in short supply, it is interesting to speculate on what Lardner might have made of Terence Trent D'Arby's "T.I.T.S."/"F&J," an exceedingly unlikely -- beautifully unlikely -- evocation of the Frankie and Johnny legend. Or what he would have done with Janet Jackson's Throb ("I can feel your body/ pressed against my body/ when you start to poundin'/ love to feel you throbbin'/ throb/ throb/ throb"). Or what it might have done to him. Cole Porter might even have got a formal apology...
Golden boy. 1988 Olympics gold medal winner intwo-man kayak. Gap pin up model. Porcellian club.Heart throb of the Charles. Started in class of1992--still trying to graduate...
Alice in Chains' last wish would be to have their listeners believe that they do have any agenda more intellectualized than making the blood swish back and forth in your head as your body conforms to the primal throb of their beat. Maybe that's why the instrumental content of their songs is so good...
...skill by Douglas Sirk: All That Heaven Allows, with young Rock Hudson and middle-aged Jane Wyman daring a love that flouts convention; and Imitation of Life, in which wannabe white woman Susan Kohner throws herself on her black mother's coffin and sobs out her remorse to the throb of a Mahalia Jackson spiritual. Jungle Fever is no less brazen -- or assured. A righteous man shoots his deranged son, and the man's wife unleashes a scream that blends with the gospel wail of . . . Mahalia Jackson. Here Jungle Fever ascends fearlessly into the delirium of high Hollywood melodrama...
Raymond Belknap, 18, was excited about the Christmas present he was giving his best friend, James Vance, 20: a heavy-metal rock record by the British band Judas Priest. For five hours the young men listened to the raucous, apocalyptic throb of the music while they smoked marijuana and split a dozen beers. Violent fantasies were nothing new to either of them. Vance had choked his mother on one occasion and hit her with a hammer on another; Belknap had stolen money and a van and exposed himself to women; both talked of leaving their hometown of Sparks...