Word: velvetized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Summertime" at 1:30, 5:30 and 9:30 on Sunday, Dec. 12. "The Letter" at 4:15 and 7:45 and "Another Man's Poison" at 6 and 9:30 on Monday, Dec. 13. "Daughters of Darkness" at 4:15 and 7:40 and "The Velvet Vampire" at 6 and 9:30 on Tuesday, Dec. 14. "Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain" at 4, 6, 8 and 10 p.m. on Wednesday...
...hear him trying, perhaps, to drum up business for a vegetable-growing friend. "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion," he says...
...everyone knows the genealogy of grunge: the Stooges and Black Sabbath got married (Iggy Pop has always been somewhat of a traditionalist) and had Seattle. The superhip blame grunge on MC5, the New York Dolls and, of course, The Velvet Underground. I would add old-style metal bands like Kiss and Dio to the list of grunge predecessors, but hey, that's just...
What you probably haven't heard is Bikini Kill's music. Mostly, it's first-rate, gut-level punk rock, linked in the slow songs to the immortal Stooges, and in the fast ones to the staticy, brittle, emotive rocking of other bands you've never heard, like Some Velvet Sidewalk. (Check them out, too, by the way.) There's a bit more syncopation, and a bit more distortion, than in this band's former outings, but the new songs aren't that different from the inspiring, loud old ones...
...Prague Spring" in 1968, a short period of relative freedom which was abruptly ended by the Soviet invasion, set Havel's political career in motion. The significance of this period in recent Czech history is equalled only by the "Velvet Revolution" of 1989, during which Havel himself assumed the presidency. Kriseova explains how the oppressiveness of the 1950s had suffocated the peoples' voices of opposition. "After a shock, society comes to its senses slowly, one person at a time." Havel entered into an arena which would become increasingly political and further from the artistic circles where he had previously been...