Word: shrieking
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...Crows' new album are more ambitious and challenging. Another Horsedreamer's Blues has a pop-soul feel (Duritz says he was looking for a Fifth Dimension's greatest hits/Isaac Hayes' Hot Buttered Soul sound); another, I'm Not Sleeping, is propelled by an assembly of strings that bounce, shriek and push the song to a rich, discordant climax...
...Clinton and the Republican leaders of Congress were still saying that it was in America's interest to reach a budget deal, that they weren't very far apart, that they had everything to gain by making peace and much to lose by fighting on, that the markets would shriek if the talks ruptured. And yet there came a moment when they all quietly reached the same conclusion. To varying degrees, they all wanted a deal, they all needed a deal, and without a miracle, they probably weren't going to get a deal. This is the story...
...more insistent than a migraine pulse. Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance in Georgia has won the sort of critics' raves that fuel studio campaigns for an Oscar nomination. This racket must cease. To praise Leigh in this small, frail film is to mistake big acting for good acting, and shriek for soul...
...performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh as a barroom singer has won the sort of critical raves that fuel studio campaigns for an Oscar nomination, TIME's Richard Corliss begs to differ: "To praise Leigh in this small, frail film is to mistake big acting for good acting, and shriek for soul." A daring, often endearing actress, Leigh virtually patented the role of neurotic little-girl-lost in such cable-ready classics as "Sister, Sister" and "Miami Blues". Lately, though, strenuous mannerism has clotted her work: bizarre accents in "The Hudsucker Proxy" and "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle", and, here...
...Martin Balsam, is climbing the stairway of Norman Bates' creepy old house, his cautious tread accompanied by a few high-pitched notes in the violins, pregnant with mystery and menace. As he reaches the landing, a door flies open in a glint of flashing steel: suddenly the strings shriek rhythmically, as the knife blade slashes down and the stricken cop topples backward to his death in a symphony of pizzicato cellos and basses. We not only see his death; we hear it as well...