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Sounds of a thunderstorm fill the small L-shaped room. Out of sight, a scent machine pumps out the smell of white cedar. “We wanted to give the audience a sense of being in the element of a thunderstorm,” Thunder Hawk said...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar and Julia L Ryan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: National Treasures | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

Several other pieces, such as “She Rode Me Down,” follow in the title track’s motley footsteps. Sharp winds and crashes of a thunderstorm give way to flamenco guitar strumming and maracas, mixing with the quirky tinkle of a glockenspiel, hand claps and a spirited jazz flute. The somber growling of a cello intimates the lyrics Staples croons (“She rode me like a storm / Like a soaking brooding storm”), while the clear, brassy peals of the horn section end the track on a vigorous note. It?...

Author: By Paula I. Ibieta, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tindersticks | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...dormcest, so this event is generally quite nice. (But still abounding with awkwardness.) You can go to bed in your new room with your new sheets and be proud: you have survived your very first day of college! If you’re lucky, there will be a crazy thunderstorm and you’ll actually go to bed in the Science Center after playing cards with President Drew Faust (this happened to the Class...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freshman Week: Accepting Your Awkwardness | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...Flickering white perimeters form a cage for the Pontiff's impotent fury. Why a Pope? With Bacon there's never one answer. His great gift was for visual and psychological conflation, for compressing multiple possibilities into a single sliding form. Trapped in a kind of isolation booth, where a thunderstorm of granular black strokes rains down on him, the screaming Pope in Head VI suggests the baying, baboon madness of authority. (One source for the image was a photo of Joseph Goebbels in full harangue.) Yet at the same time he's the face of the powerlessness of absolute power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tragic Hero: A Majestic Francis Bacon Show | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...driving your car, talking on your cell phone, adjusting your radio and drinking a Coke in a thunderstorm," says Kevin High, manager of the trauma program at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville and president of the Air & Surface Transport Nurses Association. "Now do it in a helicopter that doesn't have advanced avionics because the company doesn't want to spend the money. That's how you get into trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EMS Helicopter Safety: Can New Rules Save Lives? | 1/30/2009 | See Source »

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