Word: wandering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...piloting a computer. And there's the elaborate camera obscura some thoughtful person usually sets up, big enough to walk into and see the desert upside down. And this year, if my girls can be talked into it, we'll squish in the mud of nearby hot springs and wander around as dried-mud people, just like everyone else...
...second half of this album, unfortunately, is mostly lost in space. While the first half-dozen tracks reward repeated listenings with melodies that grow and bloom with familiarity, there is often no structure to be found in the remaining half-dozen numbers. Songs wander and then wander off, promising much and then dwindling away to nothing. OK Computer does contain some complex, lovely music--the welcoming openness of Airbag; the baroque beauty of Paranoid Android; the steady, solemn build of Let Down. On those songs, this album takes flight, achieves orbit and looks down on all the earthbound bands below...
...country whose discovery he continued but, as it happens, also a milestone in the exploration of another world. His four-decade career is testament to the fact that there are wonders that do not need to take your breath away, and that there are underappreciated worlds to wander into, down a back road, across the street, maybe even next door...
...opposed to solving a particular, sharply defined problem, has proved considerably harder. One of the biggest obstacles has been technologists' naivete about the character of human thought, their tendency to confuse thinking with analytical problem solving. They forget that when you look out the window and let your mind wander, or fall asleep and dream, you are also thinking. They tend to overlook something that such mind-obsessed poets as Wordsworth and Coleridge understood two centuries ago: that thought is largely a process of stringing memories together, and that memories are often linked by emotion. No computer can achieve artificial...
They also wander around the Museum of African American History on the ground floor, which was created in 1972 as a showcase for African and African-American...