Word: trent
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Skulls are for Courtney Love. They are for Trent Reznor. They are for pirates. The irony is a bit too rarefied for a polo shirt...
Hello, Mr. President. This is Lazarus speaking." That is how Trent Lott answered a phone call last week from George W. Bush, the man who helped force him out of the Senate's top job in 2002 after Lott praised Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential campaign. Maybe Lott is selling himself short. After all, Lazarus was in the tomb for only four days, but it took Lott, 65, four years to mount the improbable comeback that culminated in his election last Wednesday as minority whip, the second most powerful G.O.P. position in the Senate. But if Bush, who called...
...desperate to pass bills that will show voters they can govern. That might explain why some of them are already trying to reach across the aisle to him. While Mel Watt of the House Congressional Black Caucus released a statement after Lott's election saying, "The sting of Trent Lott's hurtful words are unlikely to expire anytime soon," Barack Obama, the freshman Senator from Illinois, seemed not to carry a grudge as he left the Senate floor the day after Lott's victory. "[Lott] obviously paid a price and comes back a little bit wiser...
...pioneered the use of existing music in games: much of its soundtrack was comprised of excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.”While innovations like this were initially confined to low-profile experiments, before long prominent studios got in on the action. Trent Reznor, mastermind of industrial group Nine Inch Nails, composed the entire soundtrack for id Software’s legendary 1996 shoot-em-up “Quake,” for instance.More recently, Harry Gregson-Williams, Hollywood music composer, scored the 2001 game “Metal Gear Solid...
...some observers, the choice of Trent Lott as the new number two Republican in the Senate may seem like a step backward for a party still reeling from its election drubbing. But in fact the upset victory by the Mississippi Senator, bounced out of his post as the Republican leader of the Senate four years ago after he made comments praising then-Senator Strom Thurmond for his segregationist 1948 presidential campaign, may be the clearest sign yet of how the G.O.P. plans to move forward...