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...anyone who frequents Harvard Square, Ginny embodies your image of the place. But even for people who haven't,. Ginny stricks that universal chord in everyone: she is young, stubborn and impressionable but independent. She reminds us of our own youth, or what our younger sisters are like. In short, she is instantly identifiable. Leimbach uses Ginny tactfully to tie together the innumerable loose strands that hang from the cloth that comprises this narrative: Ginny draws together all these loose ends and is the catalyst for the consolidation of this story. Leimbach flavors her narrative with an assortment of literary...
...doubt that almost everyone stands to gain as the new fares generate more traffic. Last week American, United, Northwest and Delta said they received twice as many fare inquiries as usual. "The response was unprecedented," said an American spokesman. "We read it to mean we had struck a chord with customers who had been complaining about the complexity of the system...
Social Distortion sticks to standard eight-bar rock chord progressions most of the time, but they never promise innovation, just catharsis. And sometimes humor. In "99 to Life," Ness sings about lonely weekends spent in jail. "I wish she could be here, lord if she only could/Instead she's lying in a pool of blood/She was my baby, thought she'd be my wife/I killed my baby, I killed her with my knife...
...group effectively combined different musical styles. The lead guitarist Ross Markonish's solos and Yosef Siegal's drumming had a classic rock feel. But the guitar chord progressions, Leif Simonson's basslines and Arik Grier's vocals definitely had a more alternative flavor. They would be probably be as comfortable playing Led Zeppelin as Sonic Youth, whose "Kool Sing" Goatboy covered effectively...
...message that needs to be heard: a call not just for a jobs-and-income revival but for an American political reformation. Even Brown's adversaries grudgingly acknowledge that in an era of term limits, the Keating Five and a general climate of voter restiveness, his message strikes a chord. It very obviously unnerved his rival Democratic candidates at their first televised debate in December, though Brown undercut its effect with his bristling appeal to viewers to call in contributions to his 800 number like a shop-by-phone huckster...