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...shelf; there were troll couples, troll cities, football trolls, ballerina trolls, Christmas trolls, trolls on wheels, etc. And though Trolls haven't been a trend-o-rama since the 70s, they suddenly disappeared entirely from children's toy chests about four years ago. (Eerie music starts playing in the background, the lights dim.) Something happened to the Trolls. I was determined to find out the answer...
...often grisly, realities of existence. In paintings such as 1969's "Meeting" and "Riding Round" and 1970's "Three," KKK figures collude in sinister, masked secrecy. In "Riding Round" and "Three," they point, smoke cigars and drive a massive black car; smoke-pipes protrude from industrial buildings in the background, ominously reminiscent of Auschwitz's human ovens. But Guston pokes fun at these self-absorbed, self-indulgent figures too: "fascinated by the idea of evil," as he puts it, he finally exorcises the terror of the KKK by appropriating their hoods, by making them seem ridiculous, childish-and yes, even...
...first song, "Judy Don't You Worry," starts off with Cracknell's lilting vocals washed over a simple background of a solo piano. It moves on quickly to Euro-sounding dance tracks such as "How Far" and the samba-tinged "Taking Off For France." The album does take a recess from beat-heavy percussion and veers towards further flirtation with retro-lounge electronic tunes, with Cracknell voicing her lyrics breathily in a manner not unlike Dusty Springfield. But the closing track, "Anymore," ends the album with more bleeps and heavy backbeats. While it's the strongest track in the album...
Last week the 24-year-old Krayzelburg called on both aspects of his background to win three gold medals and lead an underrated U.S. team to an astounding 33 medals in the pool. In a week in which some big fish got reeled in--Australian sensation Ian Thorpe, Dutch wonderboy Pieter van den Hoogenband and the Russian Rocket Alexander Popov each found himself bettered in one race or another--nobody caught Krayzelburg. Indeed, after a rough start, the rest of the U.S. team outswam the favored Australians, who performed before raucous hometown crowds. Swimming is the Olympics in Australia...
...basketball and then zeroed in on soccer, making several national teams. She failed to make the team that competed in the 1996 Olympics, but a job with the Games' organizing committee got her to Atlanta anyway, and she took up weight lifting to stay in shape. "Tara's athletic background, mental toughness, physical gifts give her a great foundation for any sport, including weight lifting," says U.S. women's team coach Mike Cohen...