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...them, and James fulfills that minimum obligation. But if the listener is hoping for at least one or two catchy songs--a reasonable wish--then he or she will be sorely disappointed. The few interesting moments, such as the charming first minute of "I'm Lost Without You," are almost completely obscured by the avalanche of boring ones. Also, after five or six songs, Colin James' annoying forties-crooner imitation becomes utterly intolerable. This CD may inspire some people to destroy it and others to fall asleep, but only the most swing-starved to dance...
...course of a long first year of heat and studying, Jane begins to change. She becomes detached from herself, mechanically enduring the labors of classwork while her personality (finally freed from her parents' over-whelming influence) plays with the primitive imagery of the island. This section of the book almost resembles Apocalypse Now--it depicts a slow, insane voyage punctuated by the methodical expulsion of students around her, picked off one by one by the sniping, brutal and pitiless teachers. These teachers are every premed's nightmare--a series of Nurse Ratcheds bent on tormenting the weakest and the strongest...
...poorly scripted, quasi-interwoven story is almost as confusing as it is melodramatic, particularly when improbable, Dickensian coincidences and secret character connections begin to surface after the 90-minute mark. The characters are developed only enough to continue the simplistic plots, leaving little desire to empathize with them. In a movie devoted to the pain and pleasure associated with love, an emotional connection between the audience and the characters must be established and strengthened throughout the film. But the multiple jumpy, unrelated stories show only brief glimpses into the relationships, which prevents viewers from ever becoming involved in the amorous...
...Eurydice and Orpheus in various poems, yet her usage encloses the most tragic scenes in a modern living room. She retells: "In the end, Dido/summoned her ladies in waiting/that they might see/the harsh destiny inscribed for her by the fates." The phrase "In the end" dooms the stanza to almost blase speech, which is almost bucked by the phrase "that they might," until the stanza ends with the prepositional pile-up "inscribed for her by the fates." Flat language and idioms mixed with arch language and emplotment are characteristic of Gluck's voice, which, like too many contemporary authors...
...Though I would never initiate a conversation with the people whose bathroom I was cleaning, they were always really cool with me and would talk to me," says Timothy P. Durrett '99, who has worked dorm crew for almost four years...