Word: thunderations
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...early seventies design magazines, the cultural pages of local alternative lifestyle newspapers, and the Baccalieri children’s use of a Ouija board in season four of the “Sopranos.” The music is meant to follow the lyrics’ lead: hence the thunder sounds when Eleanor is talk-singing about thunderstorms on “Ex-Guru,” and the monkey and cow noises in “The Old Hag is Sleeping” to indicate the rooster at dawn. Again, I once would have found this charming and imaginative...
...folkier albums like “We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions” and “Devils & Dust” instead. Despite their critical success, it’s impossible not to yearn for what The Boss does best: cranking out rock anthems like “Thunder Road” and “Born in the U.S.A.” Lucily, with “Magic,” Bruce returns with the E Street Band for 13 tracks swollen with keyboards, violins, saxophones, and, of course, guitars and drums. “Magic?...
...football-crazy city in India: over 100,000 boisterous Calcuttans fill the divided sides of the stadium, one half festooned in the maroon and green of Mohun Bagan, the other in the red and gold of East Bengal. Firecrackers and smoke bombs exploding in the stands drown out the thunder of the monsoon above...
...egotism. At the heart of the stunt was not a desire to intentionally polarize the student body, but to spark reasoned debate. And so long as campus activists remember that their purpose is to promote a cause, not themselves, we should be able to avoid the worst instances of thunder-stealing...
...forward again. Minutes later, a tear-gas canister arced through the air toward the pagoda's eastern entrance. The monks retreated, many still armed with clubs of scavenged wood, one brandishing a riot shield he had snatched from the police. Suddenly, there was an enormous explosion: a clap of thunder. The demonstrators applauded this sign of cosmic solidarity. One monk raised his hands to the heavens, shouting "The rain is coming! The soldiers will be struck by lightning!" Nearby, a woman responded, "Lightning is not enough. They deserve more." A cheer went up with each subsequent clap of thunder...