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...coffee and pie, the meeting breaks up. The ladies of the club climb into their cars and drive home on roads crowded with commuters bound for night duty at Airborne Express. Some of those long-distance commuters are no doubt thinking about moving to Wilmington. It's such a tranquil little town...
...best tracks on the yuletide compilation, Tracy Chapman delivers an exquisite cover of a Christmas standard. She gives the album her interpretation of the traditional song "O Holy Night." The simple guitar picking provides the perfect undertone for Chapman's deliciously rich, deep voice. In a similarly tranquil tone, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds present an original piece entitled "Christmas Song." While a recorded version appears on the Dave Matthews Band's independent debut album, this track is a live Denver performance from February 1997. With two acoustic guitars and one illustrious voice, the song speaks quietly of the love...
...humor of "MiB" depends heavily on satirically inverting the Roswell/ID$ concept of a government cover-up of alien visitations. The point here is covering up is the daily business of the Men in Black. To ensure that humans are kept in a state of tranquil ignorance. Jones coolly erases people's memories of encounters-of-the-third-kind simply by holding up a handy-dandy pen-shaped object called a "newralyzer." More importantly, the MiB serve as the planet's inter-terrestrial INS agents, regulating the movements of some 1500 aliens sojourning on Earth, concentrated mainly in NYC and mostly...
...apparent from the windy downpour that greeted the team upon its arrival in normally tranquil Hanover that the afternoon was going to be a long one. But the downpour was no match for the cold water Dartmouth dumped on Harvard...
...many of the passages that have been retained are remarkably beautiful, and the dialogues contain much prose of great lyricism and power. The directors have given greater depth to this effect by generating a changing "scenery": slide projectors are used to create a background featuring anything from photographs of tranquil natural scenes, suggesting the peace of New Park, to black-and-white photographs of young men long gone, to illustrate the memory one character is narrating to another...