Word: bleakness
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...With all its painstakingly woven samples—over 900, including the first-ever legal Madonna sample (from “Holiday,” no less)—Since I Left You is the definitive Endtroducing… of dance music. Like DJ Sjadow’s bleak hip-hop masterpiece, it is a postmodern collage in which something wonderful is invented from scraps of nothing. But far from being a threatening cut-n-paste dystopia, this music wraps itself lovingly around your ears, the warm crackle of vinyl always audible in the mesh...
...started out as a piece that was looking back on a long, terrible relationship. And then other subjects came in. Because I was experimenting with very long lines, the poems became elegiac in tone, that is, they were about loss: of innocence, of childhood, of community. Tea is a bleak, flat landscape...
With a line of 11 identically arranged, ghost-like hands hung side by side, the landscape certainly looks bleak at first glance. Yet in another sense, these photogrpahs humanize science itself. Even reduced to its most basic components of muscle, joint and skin, no hand is remotely similar to any other. Schneider’s accomplishment lies in the consolation that despite even the harshest scientific conditions, the individual characteristics of the hands and lips shine through...
...Massive retroactive tax cuts for corporations might stem some of the layoffs that have accompanied the economic downturn, but they are unlikely to encourage new investment and will make it much more difficult for the government to help those Americans most affected by the recession. The current war and bleak economy should not be used as an excuse to further the administration’s pro-corporate agenda. The proposed corporate tax cuts will persist long after the economic recovery and may cause a serious fiscal crisis in Washington...
...Just as things couldn't get much more bleak for the USPS, Postmaster General John Potter appeared before a Senate committee Tuesday to tell lawmakers his agency will require several billion dollars to recover from losses tied to the anthrax outbreak...