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...program, you expect their songs to sound cleverly tortured and insufferably internal. They are clever--note the use of unconjoined in their lyrics--but their rock experimentation owes more to David Bowie (who cameos on Province) than to John Cage. Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone's harmonies radiate awkward warmth, while the rhythms pause just long enough to reveal surprising melodies...
...plastic candelabras are an expression of holiday good cheer, perverse financial considerations be damned. That’s a very pleasant thought, but it defies common sense. This isn’t someone’s living room—it’s the marketplace, and the only warmth that matters is that of customers’ grabbing hands. Storeowners aren’t trying to cheer you up or brighten your day; they’re trying to pander to you, to make you spend. Tinsel and holly remind shoppers, most of them Christian, that they have gifts...
...much of a chance in the straightforward Best Country Album category. Like all genre crossers, she uses whatever works--an R&B horn section, the crisp guitar of Heartbreaker Mike Campbell--to create an effortlessly seductive record that swings from the cool influence of Dusty Springfield to the complicated warmth of Nanci Griffith...
...fire alarm. In dazed, disorganized columns, hundreds of students made their way down the stairs, across the courtyard, and out through the main breezeway. With the vast majority dressed either for sleep or the overzealous Eliot heating system, the cold, frustrated evacuees began huddling together for warmth. In pods of three or four, they began to ponder their situation. “If this is a drill, where are the firemen?” “What is she doing at Eliot House this late?” “Oh my god, it?...
...great job, she meets a man at work, they fall in love, then they get naked and live happily ever after. The sex scene is three pages, more than halfway through the 220-page book. Nothing is extremely explicit; it's filled with euphemisms like "her warmth" and the last line is "then he took them over...