Word: stringing
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...about what’s going on around the people, the community.”Abereoje’s favorite Nollywood actress, Omotola Ekeinde—whose breakout role as a pregnant sickle-cell patient in 1995’s “Mortal Inheritance” spurred a string of subsequent hits and even a pop album—exemplifies some of the new opportunities for women that have sprouted along with Nollywood.Tackling distinctly African themes like the proliferation of AIDS and religious tension between Christians and Muslims, Nollywood is provoked by and serves to provoke its audience?...
...surprise that the movie is riddled with uncomfortable situations. Many of the characters are vaguely shy or withdrawn, communicating with each other in broken English. The connections they make are in unlikely places and between unlikely people: an unemployed man whose wife hates him and a second-string conductor who can’t seem to finish his concerto, for example, or an outspoken young woman and a formal old man. But this is no “Lost in Translation.” It’s less a story about culture clash than it?...
...same ups and downs of domestic living in a way that artfully captures truth. If you closely study the structural skeletons of Darnielle’s songs, you can hear the echoes of a decade’s worth of Mountain Goats tracks. But instead of the intimate string arrangements and piano parts which now accompany Darnielle’s acoustic guitar, the production values of older albums were quite different. Most of Darnielle’s back catalog finds him alone, strumming his guitar furiously, his voice passionate and raw. The tracks were frequently accompanied by an overwhelming...
...good at slipping into many different worlds, even the one in my kitchen, where he is pouring in the egg mixture while I add the hot spaghetti for the carbonara. He reaches over and stirs the bacon, grabs a string bean from the pot and eats it. He is mad guesting, Olympic-level guesting. He's been over for two hours, and it occurs to me that the smooth bastard must have turned off his cell phone before he got here. When I leave the table to check on the lamb, he puts extra bacon on my pasta...
...through the album, and starts playing on the old heartstrings. The album’s title track, “Detours,” is a plaintive address to a mother about the pangs of heartbreak (probably a nod to the Armstrong breakup). This is followed by a string of pieces in which Crow is sometimes frustrated and sometimes indignant about the same subject—namely, her shattered heart. One such track, “Diamond Ring,” proves too much for even the patient listener, who might only make it through the first couple rounds...