Meanwhile, over the decades, the homicide rate goes up and down like the stock market — no one has any simple reason why — but one overall trend is as clear as it is surprising: The idea that we used to be a kinder, gentler bunch is nothing but myth.
To him they were barbarians: trigger-happy, party-hearty cowboys, a kind of Wild Bunch of the steppes, who drank too much and spiced up their steam baths with marijuana smoke, to predictably raucous effect.
Being a kind and caring bunch, they'll be releasing the entire batch of re-imaginings for free on February 25 on Soundcloud.
Being a kind and caring bunch, they'll be releasing the entire batch of re-imaginings for free on February 25 on SoundCloud.
In a depressing sign of how low mainstream rock keeps sinking, Matchbox Twenty, once the symbol of alternative rock's total co-optation by fraternity boys, now seems like a kind of sensitive, decent bunch of guys who really do consider themselves bohemians.
An installation by the New York collective 16 Beaver Group, in collaboration with the Canadian magazine Fuse, replicates a setting for one of the group's lunches, where speculative discussions on social questions are shared, via the Internet, with a wide circle of off-site participants, a kind of global lunch-bunch.
A round, bearlike man with a graying beard and twinkling eyes, Mr. Bunch exudes a kind of jolliness — you can imagine him presiding over family gatherings with stories and jokes — and his manner of speaking is mellow and even.
They're an intriguing bunch, who combine a kind of raw experience and world-weariness with gutsy, un-pretty uses of the body.
The band played a kind of best-hits program: a bunch of American standards, as realigned by its own staff arrangers.
