Word: slow-burning
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...such a shy bunch of fellas, French band Phoenix sure has been getting around. Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien, and Lourne Michaels have all welcomed the quartet into their studios, offering them the national exposure their slow-burn career (the guys have been together for over 10 years now) has heretofore lacked. While this recent introduction to the mainstream speaks to the accessibility of their genre-spanning pop tunes, a series of recent audio and visual releases by the band highlights their passion for fostering a discourse on a staggeringly broad range of music. In doing...
...inhabit a quieter, more introspective space. With the recently released “The Crying Light,” he focuses on the more fundamental, including his relation to the Earth and connections to his parents, touching on both of these relationships on the slow-burn “Aeon.” He wistfully laments our inheritance from the world and our family, as he sees it as one of mixed potential and inevitable disappointment. “Let’s do something differently, let’s take our power back,” he implores...
...result, bankers and money managers - not traditionally associated with feminist causes - are helping to power the region's slow-burn gender revolution. Investment firms like Merrill Lynch and private banks like the Swiss firm Clariden Leu have targeted Gulf millionairesses, some flying advisers out for teach-ins. Arab banks have also homed in on working women, issuing them credit cards and loans for cars and apartments...
...were to draw a diagram of acculturation, with the mores of immigrant parents on one side and society's on the other, the classic model might show a steady drift over time, depicting a slow-burn Americanization, taking as long as two or three generations. The more recent Asian-American curve, however, looks almost like the path of a boomerang: early isolation, rapid immersion and assimilation and then a re-appreciation of ethnic roots...
...Crazed has elements that Waiting lacked: a recognizable plot with a recognizable, powerful climax. But whereas Waiting gained passion from the slow-burn love of its main characters, The Crazed is forced to rely on too-familiar history. This time around, Jin aims for more but achieves less...