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  • I have another book of hers called Grotesque but I haven’t been able to muster the stomach to read it yet

    Celebrities Who Are Actually Somewhat Smart 2009

  • Perverted By Language and Grotesque reissues are out: PBL contains a studio demo of Pilsner Trail in addition to the single tracks - Grotesque doesn't contain a track called Grotesque though (see the last FallNews)

    FallNet - the punk foot of nose 1998

  • I remember reading that a film called Grotesque is pretty bad. on 12/02/2009, -0/+1Bear Grylls killed a tortoise on the discovery channel.

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2009

  • The Golden Age Of The Grotesque was a marvelous mix of punk, hardcore, techno and most interestingly, burlesque.

    Pajiba 2009

  • Critics declared Kirino the country's first hard-boiled female writer, and her subsequent works ( "Soft Cheeks" in 1999 and the recently published "Grotesque") have earned high praise and swarms of fans.

    BREAKING OUT OF JAPAN 2008

  • In the rediscovered "Grotesque" art of the Middle Ages was heardthe metaphor is deliberately mixedthe first premonition of the famous proverb that would define the coming of the digital age a century later: the medium is the message.

    Preface to _Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies After the World Wide Web_ 2002

  • When we were doing 'Grotesque', they were all about seventeen still.

    FallNews - still all mud and witches 2000

  • It is good to show how 'Container Drivers' differs from the 'Grotesque' version.

    FallNews - still all mud and witches 2000

  • Yet "Grotesque" slammed by influential bong-brained Jamming modzine as "a few decent tunes but production values leave a lot to be desired".

    FallNews - Hey Peasants! 2000

  • Take, for instance, 'The North Will Rise Again' from the new 'Grotesque' album, a song widely misconstrued as just another provincialist rant:

    New Musical Express 1981

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