Word: horror
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unnerving and spooky in Mr. Mather’s hands becomes a horror story in miniature. Amos, without needing to change Eminem’s lyrics, assumes instead the personalities of the murdered wife and bewildered child. Her falsetto refrain of, “Just the two of us” is so full of quiet menace and mourning that it becomes almost painful...
...sampler into its burlesque of drums and distorted guitar. Cannier still is the band's use of costumes at a time when metal is dominated by average dudes in sweatshirts. The band's macabre looks, like its hyperbolic lyrics, suggest the teenage alienation it sings about is a horror on par with the evils depicted in slasher pics--which is how teenagers see it too. Like it or not, Slipknot isn't likely to slip away...
Growing up in America, I was made hyperaware of racism. And then going to South Africa, the concept was punctuated at a pretty young age, 13 or 14. I became more and more horrified, first at the absurdity of it but then with the horror that comes of it: the power that's put into the wrong people's hands. Seeing people thrown off trains. Watching people being arrested, or people being molested by the authorities, or friends being mistreated...
This summer also included my third and fourth trips to the Rocky Horror Show on Broadway. Little has changed since the show opened last year; it is still tremendous fun and all the original performers still with the piece have only deepened their portrayals. Of particular note, Ana Gasteyer, on summer hiatus from Saturday Night Live, made for a winning Columbia, and theater vet Terrence Mann, who originated leads in Cats, Les Mis, Beauty and the Beast, Assassins, and the Scarlet Pimpernel, has recently taken over Frank-n-Furter’s high heels and lingerie from the dazzling...
...American boom of the last ten years - a boom that is now very likely to be ended by the economic shock of Tuesday?s horror - was partly built on a worldwide perception of the U.S. as a "safe haven." Its stocks were perennially headed up. Its consumers perennially spent. And most fundamentally, its Treasury bonds and dollars were rocks as stable as its government, storm-proof shelters that were sought out by foreign investors - the so-called "flight to quality" - in times of uncertainty...