Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Adds Ray: "My greatest fear is that Emily has a fear that it'll end." A few hours into the shoot for Least Complicated, the Girls are standing around in the darkened studio waiting for the next setup. In the lull, they begin softly to strum their guitars. One tune they play is Mystery, from the new CD. The last words to the song...
...Singing Detective, plots the death of all who may have hurt him. Lipstick on Your Collar climaxes at a grave site, where one of the three main characters is dead, a second falls into the open grave, and a third woos the widow -- all to the '50s tune Sh-Boom! "We're the one animal that knows we're going to die," Potter said. "And yet we carry on, behaving as though there's eternity...
...raised in -- the random gunplay, the whir of police helicopters, the homeboys hanging out on the corner sipping bottles of Hennessy. Despite the harsh subject matter, most of the songs are leisurely paced, with amiable melodies. One track uses part of Michael Jackson's Human Nature as its basic tune. Nas' rapping is dispassionate -- like an anchorman relaying the day's grim news -- but his lyrics sometimes reveal submerged emotion. "So stay civilized, time flies, though incarcerated your mind dies," Nas raps on One Love, a song about writing letters to friends in prison. "I hate it when your moms...
...heart, though, Aladdin and its kin were the merest, dearest emotional travelogues. They alighted on a dream here, a resentment there; they poked at a feeling until it sang a perky or rhapsodic Alan Menken tune. Nothing was lacking in these terrific movies, but something was missing: primal anguish, the kind that made children wet the seats of movie palaces more than a half- century ago as they watched Snow White succumb to the poison apple or Bambi's mother die from a hunter's shotgun blast. Disney cartoons were often the first films kids saw and the first that...
...continued layoffs, coupled with rising pay for top managers, have made their bosses look a good deal less benevolent. After Armco Steel announced a stock offering that included $45 million to be sold to key managers on generous terms, while leaving health and benefit plans unfunded to the tune of $1 billion, workers at the Middleton, Ohio, mill demanded an election to dump a 50-year-old company association and replace it with a United Steelworkers local. The election was held in May, and the USW seemed to win, though nobody actually knows yet: the company got the NLRB...