APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, and, in Washington, chirpy forecasts from the IMF that often prove a bit too chirpy.
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The album's first side contains six chirpy, crunchy punkoid miniatures.
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Boys remained chirpy, their score hardly moving from 8.3 to 8.2.
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An Uber driver in Utah had a rather chirpy passenger last week.
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On Friday, however, the "CBS This Morning" broadcast seemed chirpy as ever.
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In 2016, I had a numbing job where I blogged about chirpy influencers.
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A chirpy school worksheet becomes a commentary on the perils of literary creation.
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" The bar's initial chirpy responses to Bieneosa the day before – "ooh, we are strict!
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But people privy to these conversations report that his chirpy demeanour would occasionally slip.
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"I Will Run" follows, a short epilogue whose chirpy bassline runs into your arms.
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When a delivery is complete, the robot celebrates with a swivel dance and chirpy sounds.
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That's not the narrative portrayed in chirpy cartoon form in Fight the Traitors Together, though.
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Not exactly a chirpy Friday feeling video, but nevertheless, it's great to have them back.
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Mission complete, "May the Force be with you," along with a chirpy commendation from R2-D2!
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For starters, its surfer-dude register combined with what Ms. O'Conner calls its "annoyingly chirpy" tone.
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Let us survey the many moods of Molly Brown: She is perky, chirpy, spunky, bubbly, cheerful.
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It is loud and chirpy, with lyrics trumpeting the virtues of their sworn enemy, North Korea.
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She goes to cover the Haitian earthquake and can't be chirpy enough to satisfy her bosses.
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On Monday night's episode of The Tonight Show, they gathered together for a chirpy performance of "Sucker".
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Back in 1932, the public reported that crickets became excessively chirpy during totality, but cicadas stopped singing.
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This recipe from Living Chirpy is your basic creamy mashed potatoes recipe with a green veggie twist.
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Determined to keep chirpy, she started a blog about her illness called "Not Doing Things by Half".
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A chirpy ranger (Emma Meltzer) from the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park sets the general scene.
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His voice is chirpy-thin, making his stories of debauched after-hours excess sound like child's play.
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The Artforum profile turns into a poorly-produced bit of web content scored by awful, chirpy music.
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" His spirit guide is a chirpy powder-blue flying unicorn who says things like, "Oops, I pooped.
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"Rose Colored Boy" and "Fake Happy" both pair chirpy synthfunk verses with big, loud choruses and slammed guitars.
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Carsie Blanton: Buck Up (Carsie Blanton) The unfashionably chirpy, unabashedly horny Blanton has been making albums since 2005.
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Argyle Shift is the obligatory anime-style mech simulator with obligatory chirpy co-pilot wearing next to nothing.
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"Tis the season for wrestling your wiggly little monster into thick winter clothes!" the chirpy voice-over announces.
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I switched back and forth between two phone lines and personalities: a shaky, desperate mother and chirpy, cheerful journalist.
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You can ask it questions, play games with it, and even pet it to elicit a chirpy little purr.
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Day by day, his audio diary for his website stayed chirpy; but the selfies showed a face increasingly exhausted.
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In episode one for example, viewers are given a sickening montage of police violence set to happy chirpy music.
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Many YouTubers have believed that they are loved most by their audience when they project a chirpy, grateful image.
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Next, the number It rings a couple of times and then you get a very chirpy message from Washington.
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For some of us it may be easier to hear his earlier songs, especially his chirpy Jackson 5 hits.
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"We're gonna play Settlers of Catan at roughly 8:00," Shepard, 42, told a duo of chirpy Golden Globe interviewers.
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HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - Investors were chirpy after electric-car maker Tesla unveiled an unexpected profit for the third quarter.
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In this recipe from Living Chirpy, sweet carrots and creamy mashed potatoes make for an unexpected turkey day side dish.
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She is slightly nervous but masks it with that chirpy, skittish sort of positivity that people affect at business meetings.
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Like all of the chirpy confidence she'd had before was just gone, and she obviously really regretted what she'd done.
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Over at Maccarone, Neal Jones played the English eccentric, interspersing crudely chirpy, expressionistic painting with furniture sculptures made from found objects.
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When I hear the app's chirpy tone emanating from the bottom of my handbag, I am no longer struck with terror.
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A chirpy theme song promised that she (and we) were "going to make it after all," and, lo and behold, she did.
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I only closed my eyes for a second… Maryam, usually the chirpy general rounding up her troops, sat defeated on the couch.
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The five-member girl group is typical of South Korean girl groups — known for their chirpy, bubble-gum harmonies and sexy choreography.
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Many gave chirpy honks of support as they sped down the road; some leaned out of their windows to greet her personally.
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With her scarce time on-screen, Bella is a humming pillar of light with her chirpy smile hanging above fuzzy animal sweatshirts.
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For months, rumors have been swirling that Apple was planning on rolling out some big changes to Siri, its chirpy digital assistant.
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Her voice was small and chirpy when she was a 20-something no-name from Krasnodar and won the Glinka singing competition.
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Despite their late entry into the war, they had shaped the conflict decisively with their manpower, their matériel and their chirpy marketing.
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It sounds not chirpy but headlong, driven, and enraged, and, for three minutes or so, this well-behaved film goes into shock.
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But 24hrs opted to keep it in the family for the remix, and it's entertaining to hear the two siblings trade chirpy flows.
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When the package arrived and I stared at the little white and yellow cup, the chirpy cartoon lettering, I was struck by something.
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It features three chirpy people hyping up the company's new Twin Tower sale, and it goes about as well as you would expect.
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The chirpy, know-it-all Madeline Martha Mackenzie—a Reese Witherspoon character played perfectly by Reese Witherspoon—introduces herself with a showoff's humility.
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"WE ARE RUNAWAY" they told us, in their chirpy circuit voices, asking and answering all the questions of existence in a mere three words.
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BrainDead has no idea what it's trying to say, but as the chirpy music insists in every other scene, at least it's having fun.
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The gloriously chirpy "Don't Worry About the Government" is an advertising jingle by comparison, but it shares with "Psycho Killer" a detachment, an angularity.
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The annoyingly chirpy Microsoft Word assistant is a reliable punching bag online, but to date had never made his way into the release notes.
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"These Heaux," a menacing trap banger that revealed her ability to rap and her willingness to look ridiculous, marvelously showcases her chirpy singsong flow.
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When I travel abroad, delivering a grin and a chirpy "I'm great, how are you?" has seemed like unnecessarily cheerful bluster, even slightly deranged.
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They chose the chirpy music (heavy on the Peggy Lee), they oversaw the jewel-tone design, they masterminded the editing and the sound mixing.
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And although many of their previous ads have been tear-jerkers, this year's is the perfect chirpy antidote to the widespread misery of 2016.
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"It's far better than staying at home," says Eun Ho Lee, a chirpy 77-year-old who in his younger days ran a bedlinen business.
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They look pretty chirpy considering they must have had to step over half a dozen naked, booze-soaked bodies to get to the front door.
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" She's discouraged from acting that way by porn producers and directors who say to her: "No, no, you've got to constantly be chirpy and happy.
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Part of the Minions' ostensibly universal charm lies in the fact that they speak no known language, but rather a chirpy, vaguely Spanish-inflected patois.
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The full premiere of this two-act work arrives on June 4; I hope it will seem of greater consequence than these amiable, chirpy excerpts.
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In The Observer Effect: On Contemporary Painting, Schwabsky's readable and often chirpy essays philosophically examine what painting is and can become through an observer's encounter.
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Meanwhile, the death knell sounded for Britain's casual-dining revolution with the collapse of the restaurant group founded by Jamie Oliver, a consistently chirpy celebrity chef.
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Just look at the spring/summer 2018 offerings: slinky serpent greens at Adam Selman, chirpy blue raincoats at Calvin Klein 205W39NYC, buttercup yellows at Marc Jacobs.
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It's difficult to pick what's sweeter — the effort Travill went to in order to make the collage, or the gleefully chirpy reactions of his two children.
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The original "Sleigh Ride," a chirpy instrumental, was penned by Leroy Anderson in 1948 and became an immediate hit when it was released a year later.
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The premise is simple enough: Adults dress as characters from the Spiderman and Frozen franchise and act out wordless, often slightly violent skits to chirpy music.
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It's difficult, sometimes, to figure out exactly what to make of what we see onscreen, even as Harley's relentlessly chirpy narration tries to guide us through it.
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That's accomplished partly through industrial design, he says, with Scout's friendly curves, toy-like rubber tires, and chirpy blue paint job giving it a distinctly nonthreatening vibe.
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All the while, her chirpy voiceover forges full speed ahead, trying to stave off the darkness that keeps threatening to take over her head, and the show.
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One is that, beneath the altar-boy haircut, winning smile, chirpy voice and banter about football, Mr Rubio is as ideologically extreme as anyone in the contest.
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Bottlenose dolphins, on the other hand, make chirpy calls to one another in a pod, and it's believed these chirps help them work together as a group.
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Its third movement is based on a jaunty tune, "Komm Lieber Mai" ("Longing for Spring") whose chirpy lyrics conceal a Masonic message of hope and brotherly love.
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Her music is chirpy and kinetic, but weird chords and nervous bits rustling in the orchestra suggest that Josephine fears that his plan to enlist is dangerous.
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True, he was referring to the "spirit of the people" that he also squeezed into that 140-character nook, but his chirpy gratitude had a kooky ring.
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It felt like everyone — from Hannah to Marnie to chirpy Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) and sneering Jessa (Jemima Kirke) — was finally calling each other on their respective shit.
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In the good years before that crash the dismal science turned chirpy, talking of a "Great Moderation" that had tamed the boom and bust of the business cycle.
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Episode 1 - "Your Will Shall Decide Your Destiny" Okay, sorry: Did Netflix resurrect Evan and Jaron and hire them to do this chirpy, la-la-la theme song?
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The chirpy Symphony No. 2212 and the sparkling "Linz" Symphony bracket a performance of the Piano Concerto No. 2501, with the rising star pianist Benjamin Grosvenor as soloist.
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Relentlessly chirpy, the noisy miner blasts the alarm before dawn alongside the screeching and flapping of rainbow lorikeets, parrots brighter than Magic Markers and that argue like toddlers.
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The chirpy, family-values side of the season is often just a way to cover that up—or at least a quick way of fighting back against the darkness.
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"If the data are going to decide the Monetary Policy Committee's tone next week, then I'd expect it to be fairly chirpy," Alan Clarke, an economist with Scotiabank, said.
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I've advocated for Yachty's return to the major-key technicolor of his debut EP, Summer Songs, in the past, but it's not because I want things chirpy and carefree.
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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, a local dream-pop quartet, headlines; that band's last record, "Days of Abandon," was a chirpy affair, with heavy nods to New Wave.
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Beth is fiercely protective of herself and her clone sisters, ensuring that the smart and flighty Cosima gets tuition, and that the strict and chirpy Alison learns about gun safety.
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I became acquainted with Sylvanian Families recently when I stumbled across their Twitter feed, which is about as relentlessly chirpy as Kermit the Frog or a pre-prison Martha Stewart.
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There is a temptation to focus on Turtleneck Man as a person: his tilted head, his wry smile, his chirpy obliviousness to the loud booing that envelops his final sentiments.
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The film, directed by Alexandre Aja and based on a novel by Liz Jensen, sometimes sounds like a children's fantasy, especially when the chirpy Louis is narrating in voice-over.
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Of course, the next morning she took advantage of his chirpy mood to sell him on the Kimmy plan (meet up in Greece, get her arrested for drugs in Bulgaria).
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And he's game but less inspired on a pair of marquee duets, with Cyndi Lauper ("Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," chirpy, cloying) and Sheryl Crow ("Embraceable You," a satiny snooze).
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On the cozy, chirpy "My Phone," the slight echo accentuating her singing radiates delighted relief, while on "Apathy" her breathy double-tracked voice over bitter guitar crunch shivers with nervous resignation.
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"Just last year, CPAC was dominated by Ted Cruz supporters and chirpy little shits with bow ties, but Donald Trump, worried about a poor reception, canceled his appearance," correspondent Michael Rubens said.
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Rather than a chirpy and immediately recognizable pop song to unite kids and parents after 90-odd minutes of animated japes, the movie would have closed with a dreamy psych-rock jam.
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There was the palette: chirpy pops of neon on softly tailored suits or checked pants teamed with box-fresh trainers, and a procession of diaphanous candy-colored minidresses with fanned tutu skirts.
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Schwabsky's readable and often chirpy essays bring together thematic connections that associate such distinct painters as Nicole Eisenman, John Curin, Ha Chonghyun, Dana Schutz, Bernard Frize, Sue Williams, and Kerry James Marshall.
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Mr English, who is less chirpy than Mr Key and led his party to a resounding defeat in 2002, was briefly challenged for the ruling party's leadership by two colleagues in the cabinet.
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In one of his viral YouTube sketches, he plays a suburban mom in an orange-juice commercial, whose chirpy spiel on nutrition morphs into a surreal backstory involving dog fighting and death metal.
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American economic growth has been chirpy for years, and unemployment in America has just fallen to a 16-year low of 0003%, yet the Federal Reserve's target range is still only at 0.75-1%.
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Arms' roster looks like it just stepped out of the casting room for Blizzard's smash hit shooter Overwatch, each rendered in a chirpy and colorful style that hints at their particular strengths and weaknesses.
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With the help of a chirpy AI companion and a quartet of holograms representing some of the key members of the settlement, you search for a way off the planet and back to Earth.
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The ones that hop among the briars in Love and the Pilgrim (1896-97) are chirpy customers – nearby in the exhibition are some of his very likeable preliminary sketches of them on the wing.
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The shades of Super Meat Boy are cast a bit heavy at times in this short platformer, but the colorful environments, chirpy chiptunes and charming fauna easily make up for the somewhat overzealous controls.
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"Bus in These Streets," the irresistibly chirpy single he released this week, features production and programming by his comrade Flying Lotus, with a sound that recalls the radiant, chiming side of Motown's '60s assembly line.
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In the seven years covered in the second volume, from 1956 to 1963, Plath lurches from gladness to despair, preserving the tenor of what she called "newsy" letters—chirpy and brisk—as best she can.
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She is shown attending government sponsored speed-dating events with chirpy announcers, heart-shaped decorations, and a crowd of young people practicing their prepared dating versions of elevator pitches in the hopes of finding The One.
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The first half of the episode sees Lucy frantically trying to prove that her parents — played to faux-chirpy perfection by Mark Moses and Julie White — aren't entirely as supportive of her as they might seem.
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Their latest, chirpy release on the Sono Luminus label, "Serious Business," quizzically looks at musical humor through three works from the last two years, and a fourth by an up-and-comer named Franz Josef Haydn.
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Generally, he used tiny, standard loudspeakers to produce slight, chirpy sounds performed at the limits of audio perceptibility, such as can be heard in his "Small Music #230: Dance on Takashima Island 1 and 2" (1998).
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Visually when I saw a picture of India, it may well be her," Shoaib said, saying of Mack that it "was strange to see her go from a smiling chirpy, extremely friendly girl to someone quite stern.
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And while they might arise on the golf course as well, Abe hopes the chirpy, verdant surroundings of the Kasumigaseki Country Club -- which only agreed to accept women members in March -- can ease whatever disagreements may arise.
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In the video above, which edits together all the times Phil has to wake up to the alarm clock's chirpy tune, you essentially get to see the trajectory of the entire movie in less than four minutes.
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From giant trap hooks to unobtrusively laid-back keyboards to chirpy R&B ballads, it encompasses the plural sounds of hip-hop, as they exist on today's charts; almost every tendency currently common in the genre is represented.
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The chirpy children's rhyme "Love on Me," the zippy, exploding loops on "Tell Me You Love Me," and the tropical bubblegum of "Hunter" initially sound expedient before sinking permanently into your brain and skittering joyfully round and round.
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In Lady Dynamite, Bamford is simultaneously chirpy and hilarious and frayed around the edges, and season two looks to promise more of the same, plus some appealing guest stars like Andy Samberg, Jenny Slate, and even Bamford's actual parents.
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There are a lot of sonic similarities to the TB-303, but the comparison in Loopop's video shows that certain parameters on the TD-3 sound markedly different, and it's often brighter, sharper, and more chirpy than Roland's original.
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Migos's Culture II, out since January, is both a sequel to their beloved Culture (2017), and its polar opposite: similarly upbeat, chirpy trap songs, inverted from the original album's efficiently compressed shape into a sprawling, disorderly two-disc mess.
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Among their previous releases, The Red was an irresistible skyrocket of chirpy, defiant attitude, The Velvet a dull glob of mushy lounge-elevator sensitivity, so when Russian Roulette was announced as a mix of these two styles, all bets were off.
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So, anyway, that's my system: Ride on other people's accounts whenever possible, be as chirpy and friendly as if I'd had three cappuccinos, and make sure to throw a few dollars in for a tip at the end of the ride.
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The footage is edited to include the nostalgic TV static and lines that are a staple of childhoods spent in front of the screen after school, and is made only better by the chirpy font that introduces all the characters.
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"Whether it is bacon butties for the 9am team meeting, some healthy treats post gym work out or the ultimate freshly baked croissant and coffee there is now no excuse to skip breakfast," says the rather chirpy UberEATs press release.
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The Arctic Apple has a consumer-facing website that explains in a chirpy, first-person tone exactly how the company makes its non-browning apples by silencing the gene the controls polyphenol oxidase production using a technique called RNA interference.
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While the chorus literally spells out the title, I M U R chooses to let the song wander into an extended groove of chirpy vocal samples and bent 808s before arriving at the final hook, no more resolved than before.
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The six-song release leads off with the title track, featuring Travis Scott, Quavo, and former Fifth Harmony member Camila Cabello—everyone sounds great over the warm dancehall-lite groove, and Diplo keeps things moving with a chirpy synth part.
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Another "Moment Musical," in F Minor, its momentum chirpy and steady like a windup toy, showed that Mr. Abduraimov knows how to get out of the way of the music, imposing his will in just one brief tease of the tempo.
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Or rather, what happened to football for this once bright, chirpy, cheeky-chappy from Camden – formerly labelled a Brazilian by Pele himself – to land at the Ricoh Arena, and all the riches of the have-a-go-hero territory of the third tier?
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"Mary Poppins," the movie based on the popular children's books by author P.L. Travers, followed a magical flying British nanny as she improved the lives of the unhappy Banks family with the aid of chirpy Cockney chimneysweep Bert, played by Dick Van Dyke.
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Soft colors replace chirpy blues and whites, and the surrounding landscape (inspired by the famous Bliss image used as wallpaper in Windows XP) is replaced by a night sky, populated by constellations of algorithms, their nodes blinking down peacefully at the protagonist.
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In the original Pitch Perfect, there's an exchange between Elizabeth Banks' character, Gail, and her a cappella co-host, John Michael Higgins' John, that's delivered in such chirpy tones it takes a second for the sarcastic wit of the lines to sink in.
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Essentially a cross between Her Story and the movie Unfriended, you play a guy who sits down at a chirpy little pink and yellow video game called Pony Island, and discovers that the happy-clappy platformer has been invaded by a demonic virus.
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And so maybe it's just as well rowdy garage-rock group Drenge—brothers Eoin and Rory Loveless, who are joined live by bassist Rob Graham – have ripped the piss out of chirpy YouTubers in a new music video that's all about slime.
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"One of the great strokes of genius is that these women who are complaining about Bobby find this chirpy optimistic style of singing to basically say that Bobby is a jerk," Joel Fram, Ms. Elliott's music supervisor and a onetime Yale Whiffenpoof, said.
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With the help of a chirpy voiceover, Katie (Katy Mixon) tells us all about the high pressures of her white-picket-fence-lined suburb and how the "fattest" woman in her neighborhood is leaving town, abandoning her to fend off the skinny alpha moms herself.
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Now behold waves of pealing keyboard ripples, noodling trebly guitar, sweeping electronic strings, organic grooves inhabiting a soft-rock variant on neosoul, and a panoply of chirpy female R&B voices, most prominently Estelle and Kali Uchis, whispering sweet nothings and providing vocal cushioning.
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They include her two British sons, Peter, a banker, and Simon, a writer (both played convincingly by an agile Hugh Dancy) and the women in their lives: Trudi (Talene Monahon), Peter's chirpy American fiancée; and Claire (Megalyn Echikunwoke), the actress who lives with Peter.
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Taken from the band's forthcoming album, Damage With Care—their first in three years—this song is as infectious and chirpy as it's dancey and dangerous, a rush of exuberant introspection that's got one foot in the past and one foot in the future.
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Also, if you felt that Earth's largest corporations didn't have enough recording devices in your home, Amazon announced a fleet of new Alexa-adjacent gadgets that will bring her chirpy presence into earbuds, glasses, a ring and even a new collar that tracks your dog.
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We can see that in the choice to have Julianne Moore reprise her brittle '50s housewife routine, to put Damon back in shirtsleeves and browline glasses, and to open the film with a chirpy slideshow advertising the amusingly narrow charms of the community for which it's named.
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For those of us who have some attachment to Brendan Urie and his vocal stylings, the "High Hopes" dance is basically Emo Night, nightmare edition: like the chirpy, overachieving lovechild that would result if the beer- and nostalgia-soaked listening nights met the church youth group.
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Sometimes—not that this is a good thing; like I said, I'm still learning—I'll try to take the edge off the bad stuff by withholding some of the messier details before inevitably blurting them out anyway, or with chirpy delivery, or a dumb, self-deprecating punchline.
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But I do know how the song, with its ominous synth drone, teetering drums, and chirpy circus melody of a lead, made me feel: the grueling mixture of emotions that comes with the growing impossibility of distinguishing between a technological simulation of life and the real thing.
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Its five food stalls are almost cartoonishly bucolic; dripping in bright Southern pastels, circling around a clutter of tables and barstools, just like the chirpy food trucks—and their ultra-focused concept menus—found in the backyards of East Side bars all over Texas's capital city.
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Despite your nicey nice, glossy and chirpy veneer, some of us think of you more as the Leo DiCaprio of magazines, using up every beautiful model that crosses your path ("beautiful model"= "award-winning journalist" in this scenario), discarding them, and pretending you leave no wake behind you.
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Sophie's earlier work may have matched the sugary crunch of PC Music's squeaky puerility exactly — her debut single "Bipp," bouncing mechanically over chirpy synth stabs whose precisely timed and tangibly textured forward propulsion compensated for the absence of a drum track, captures that style — but that moment has cooled.
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Despite her cookies and chirpy persona, Stephanie seems uneasy in her own skin, but she soon finds a new focus (other than her son and herself) when she sees Emily slink out of a Porsche in stilettos and a peekaboo pinstripe suit, hair cascading from beneath a rakish black fedora.
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Along with his supposed proclivity for fast food binges and Chinese takeaways – in the unimaginatively titled My Autobiography, Alex Ferguson called Bosnich a "terrible professional" on account of his shambolic diet – there was a sense in which the chirpy New South Walian allowed himself to be made into a crude national cliche.
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When he wants to — among dozens of examples, think of the shining final children's chorus of his Nativity oratorio, "El Niño"; the British Dancing Girl's chirpy number in "The Death of Klinghoffer"; Pat Nixon's statuesque aria, "This Is Prophetic," from "Nixon in China" — he can create earworm melodies the equal of Puccini's.
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Within a couple of years, she was one of the world's top big cat trainers, never happier than when she was behind steel bars with a dozen or more tigers, commanding them in her chirpy voice to leap through fiery hoops, walk on wires, roll large balls and arrange themselves in a pyramid.
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It's a fate that's been nauseatingly normalized, thanks to the NRA and their political enablers: "G is for Greg who was caught unawares/ H is for Hiro who needs more than prayers …" It's scarifying stuff, a far cry from the macabre wit of the 1963 original, whose satirical target was the chirpy homilies of most ABC's of the day.
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It's a move that has already drawn comparisons to another pair of ATLiens, and though the Sremmurds are working with a more limited palette—namely Mike Will Made-It beats and chirpy mantras, the two constants of their catalog—this triad of records is another compelling entry in the tradition of colorful radio weirdos working in the Peach State.
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More exclusively electronic and less instrumentally varied than his previous work, dominated by woozy waves of synthesizer and his own chirpy, pitch-corrected vocals, this music shares a style not just with the impractical shit sold in Hiper Asia but with a lot of avant-garde Spanish-language rock and/or electronica: it's colorful, jumpy, fragmented, a little garish, and also pinched, narrow, perversely difficult.
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This is apparently no bother to the occupants of the room in question, who are not Pinter's Brits, but Americans, at least to judge by their accents: Rose, played by Kate Valk with the willfully chirpy domesticity of a 1950s television housewife, and Bert (Scott Renderer), an evidently very dim bulb of a man, silently tucking into the breakfast Rose makes him before he goes out into the cold.
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Both sisters sing together, usually in unison but sometimes trading lead and backup roles, or timing their entwined harmonies so that one pellucid singer's utterances seem woven into the other's, echoing through the aural space — as when their voices merge over the swirling organ in "It's a Shame," or when their chirpy, ping-ponging exclamations set up the dizzy guitar spiral in "Distant Star," descending and climbing upward again.
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On my United flights to Wyoming, there was an unexplained delay, chirpy insistence that an obviously delayed flight would leave on time, a failure to explain how easy it was to make up time en route when so much padding is added to the actual flight time and, finally, the seeming foolishness of forcing frazzled people to stuff wheelie bags that will fit in the overhead bins (with room to spare) into a gate-side sizer (where they may not).
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At first glance, they have little to nothing in common: One is a horror movie starring Sandra Bullock as a mother fighting to save her children in a post-apocalyptic world where blindfolds and chirpy birds are the only things standing between them and death by suicide-inducing creatures; the other is Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick's noir femme fatale thriller with a twist; the third is a World War II drama with a surprising love story between a biracial German girl and a young Nazi.
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City (2012) and To Pimp a Butterfly (2015), were long, thorny, endlessly multifaceted, almost novelistic epics, whose messy narratives found Lamar slipping into different voices and perpetually circling back on himself over music whose stark, grand, through-composed beauty fit the semi-tragic tone — Good Kid in the way its coldly expansive electrobeats frame several pained, weary, chirpy voices around Lamar's centralized own; Butterfly in the way the beats leave space enough for a whole live jazz ensemble, lending the music a magically breezy, liquid fluidity while also functioning as a built-in racial metaphor.
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The menswear-inspired suit was such an unexpected choice in an administration that constantly sends the message that girls should be girls even if they are in power positions (see Ivanka's pink flounces, as well as Ms. Hicks' usual chirpy dresses), that the internet started flapping and it didn't stop even when Ms. Hicks appeared in what was generally deemed a "baggy" (in the words of the Daily Mail) fuchsia dress and black blazer at the China state dinner — and then another "baggy" shirt on the way to Vietnam.
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