Word: weirdness
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...Fontana/Polygram). Voices, the name used by several women's choirs that sing traditional Bulgarian folk songs, has built a growing cult of listeners since its first U.S. release four years ago, and deservedly so. The a cappella harmonies use impossibly high pitches with exquisite precision. The effect is weird, beautiful and sometimes unearthly...
...hours that led to last Friday's closing of our cover story, correspondents Jonathan Beaty and Sam Gwynne were holed up in an office, still tracing the weird contours of one of the world's most baroque financial schemes -- a Washington-to-Abu Dhabi intrigue that matches John le Carre's imagination for espionage, Frederick Forsyth's for terrorism and Oliver Stone's for greed. In this week's story, Jonathan and Sam have uncovered how the Bank of Credit & Commerce International used a "black network" of terrorists and self-appointed spies to serve as a one-stop shopping center...
...camera moves with bold, often devious assurance; action sequences are as sleekly muscled as the torsos of the film's jock hero (Keanu Reeves) and surfer villain (Patrick Swayze). Director Kathryn Bigelow has few peers at this aerobic cinema, as she proved a few years back with the weird, beautiful Near Dark. Here, though, limning the attempts of FBI agent Reeves to infiltrate Swayze's beach-bum bank gang, Bigelow often forsakes her wits. Naked babe nukes G-men. Hero weakly abets heist. Director defers climax for a little documentary on skydiving. So how do you rate a stunningly made...
...appealed to its listeners for the money to finish the project; about 20 chipped in $77,000. A chance meeting with director Jonathan Demme led to a distribution deal and a screening at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Three studios are now pursuing Rich. "It's kind of weird when you're 19 and you're being wooed," he muses. "If I hadn't done this movie, I'd be just another black kid on the street with a gold tooth and a funny haircut...
There's rap attitude and rhythm under Fishbone's rock, just as Queensryche modifies its metal base into something sleeker and more pointed. "We have audiences full of schoolteachers and college professors," reports Tate, who also plays keyboards for the group. "It's really weird. We have the 7-Eleven clerks and the people from Microsoft...