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Before the band took the stage, Scottish songstress Angela McCluskey opened at their Friday night FleetCenter show, a venue much more capacious and comfortable in the brisk autumn than their outdoor show last year at the Tweeter Center. McCluskey showed off her smooth and powerful voice on a handful of tracks from her debut CD Things We Do, and her band provided lush backing to her slightly raspy, occasionally soulful vocals. The performance set the stage for the rest of the night: behind the ethereal music and her slightly quirky vocals, the band rocked out, with her guitarist seeming even...
...both films, the prodigious attention paid to mundane routines and the eloquence given to description of physical place contrast starkly and ironically with the brisk pace of modern life...
Four divisions comprised the two-day regatta, as each school launched two full-rig dinghies, a 420 and a Flying Junior and two Lasers in 20 races. Sailors had to contend with a biting fall chill and brisk 12- to 22-knot winds while on the water for consecutive eight- to 10-hour days...
...full-formed. The vast strides that Arab media have made since Al-Jazeera first began broadcasting in 1996 are impressive. Before Al-Jazeera, nearly all Arab media were state-controlled. Now the city of Dubai is selling space in its “Media City” at a brisk pace. Obviously, there is more work to be done. Al-Jazeera’s staff must learn to suppress their personal opinions more effectively, even when making everyday reporting decisions about the wording of articles and headlines. Indeed, the station recently hosted a forum on media bias and has developed...
...reemergence into the football spotlight has coincided with the team’s brisk run to a 3-0 record...