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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Molina & Johnson struggle with the limitations of their chosen genre, however, occasionally exhausting their limited supply of musical and thematic tropes. Indicative of the album’s primary shortcoming, “In the Avalon/Little Killer” is a maudlin piano ballad that falls short of the powerful simplicity that “All Gone, All Gone” achieves, and for which it strives. While emotive and marginally moving, the music is fairly boring, never quite leaving the ground. It is chilling, but only slightly so, and while it maintains the unmediated feeling of someone sitting down...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Molina & Johnson | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...school dance, or wanting to be popular, even if we don’t have a llama living in our backyard. It is much harder to connect with someone whose face betrays no feeling and whose prose includes lines like, “He’s the chosen one. He was born with flesh pockets.” By failing to give viewers a glimpse into its main character’s emotions, “Gentlemen Broncos” ends up feeling more like Benjamin’s clumsy science fiction than the work of a seasoned comedic...

Author: By Rebecca J. Levitan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gentlement Broncos | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

Sanderson was chosen to finish the series by Harriet McDougal, Jordan’s widow. In an interview yesterday, Sanderson recalled the moment when he received the initial message from McDougal, describing his reaction as “dumbfounded stupefaction” upon being asked to finish a series he had begun reading when...

Author: By EESHA D. DAVE, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fantasy Author Visits Coop | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

Lenora C. Murphy ’12, an avid fan of the series who was chosen to be a Storm Leader—what she called a “super volunteer”—for yesterday’s event, said she enjoyed the newest installment for its myriad characters and fast-paced plots...

Author: By EESHA D. DAVE, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fantasy Author Visits Coop | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

Calixte says she likes their chosen song, “Fifteen Fit Señoritas,” because of its lyrics...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Rough, Yet Personal, Sport | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

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