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...songs are artfully constructed, ranging from the introspective “My Sins” to the teasingly jazzy intro of “Before You Met Me.” Bell and Palmer’s guitar work is unaffected and terse, neither giving in to indie-style chord pounding nor dissolving into noodling solos. That said, album-opener “Green Eyes” boasts a yearning solo that might make the Edge proud. Matthew J. Kamen ’03 provides lithe basslines that mostly remain tied to the bass drum of Travis M. Beamish...
Guitarist Eric Krasno was no less impressive. Moving fluidly between jazz chord voicings, Hendrix-like blues riffs and soulful lead lines, Krasno is a master of his instrument in all capacities. He spent the night leaning against a bar stool, often mimicking his guitar lines with moaning facial expressions...
...entry. But they promote membership not as a blessing but as protection against getting swallowed up by a revanchist Russia, or as an obligatory move for a tiny country with a population of less than 1.5 million. Igor Gräzin, a prominent euroskeptic law professor, strikes a chord with his puckish comparison between the E.U. and the U.S.S.R. "The parallels are perfect," he says. "The only difference is that the Soviets rewarded you if you overproduced, the E.U. if you underproduce." The Estonian Director of the Office of European Integration, Henrik Hololei, understands why some people object...
...Twist and Shout." Tracy's ballad "I Can Hear the Bells" summons the ghosts of white-girl singers and the ultimate white-girl tribute song, Neil Sedaka's "Calendar Girl"; instead of the months counted off, we hear "Round One... Round Two..." The bluesy "It Takes Two" borrows the chord pattern from "Sea of Love" and the mood of Barbara Lynn's "You'll Lose a Good Thing" (a Waters favorite oldie, used in the movie). There's a black-girl-group uptempo number, "Welcome to the '60s," that echoes "Heat Wave" and other Martha and the Vandellas tunes...
...unlikely to copy Wimmer's technique when it is easier to obtain deadly viruses in nature. Smallpox, the one bug that can't be found there, is too complex to be made this way. So why all the fuss? Says Wimmer: "There is something with viruses that strikes a chord...