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...Seaside Weekend," a hard-driving and energetic pop rock ditty, displays the band's playful side. Right away the tune hooks the listener in, not wasting time with polite introductions. The tune starts with bass and drums grooving hard underneath an enchanting slide guitar melody, injecting the tune with a longing sadness. The rest of "Seaside Weekend" seems like an exercise in controlled anger: beneath the carefree melody the chords are dark and help convey the sad regret implicit in the lyrics. The verse is restrained and Buni's vocals do most of the work. But at the chorus...
Particularly captivating were the viola-oboe duet and the deep rumblings of the timpani near the end of the first movement--think of the T running underneath the building all of you Wigg residents. The same all-encompassing, electrifying force galvanized listeners throughout the furious oscillation of the second movement's sometimes lamenting, sometimes triumphant phrases...
...five minutes, Jiang read from a prepared text in Chinese in an elaborately decorated marble hall of the Main Building at Drexel. With a plush, specially rolled-out red carpet underneath Jiang's feet and gold and blue Drexel banners in English and Chinese characters draping the hallways, Drexel was clothed to the hilt. Painters put the fin- ishing touches on doors just hours before the Secret Service would escort Jiang through. Behind the president hung two enormous flags, each three stories long, of the United States and the People's Republic of China...
...follow are devastatingly realistic. The talented Ang Lee (The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman, Sense and Sensibility) has directed this story of uneasy family relationships in the restless, promiscuous culture of the early 1970s with crystalline precision, leaving the audience to stare at the ugly and universal truths underneath. Ben Hood (Kevin Kline) is having a decidedly unromantic affair with his next-door neighbor Janey Carver (Sigourney Weaver), while his wife Elena (Joan Allen) is showing signs of being unable to put up with the charade of their 17-year marriage any longer. Their children, meanwhile, are beginning...
...reconstruct the destroyed face and "exploded head" of the victim, so his mother's "dreams of her baby / in tuxedoed satin" can be fulfilled. Libert and Parker intersperse video of Smith's recitation of the poem with shadowy figures, discreet images of hands molding flesh onto the skull underneath and childhood playground scenes almost ominous in their innocence...