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These prog-rock embellishments seem more Rush than Pink Floyd; while creating a final package that takes more time to digest, like the worst offenders of the genre, they also detract from the intensely accomplished peaks the band manages to climb. Ultimately, though, I doubt the Mars Volta will ever hold back much on the grandiosity. Even with their bloodstreams and lungs clean, Bixler and Rodriguez’s twisted mind trips will impact the presentation of their music more than appropriate...
TheFacebook’s carefree atmosphere, however, didn’t jive well with suburban Palo Alto. Late in the summer, their landlord sent TheFacebook boys a letter of complaint, asking them, among other things, not to throw furniture into the pool, talk outside after 10 p.m., or climb on the roof...
...around a frozen meadow in the dark wearing night-vision goggles. One of the game designers noticed that the goggles throw off less green light than he expected. That will be reflected in the next version of the game. They drink $1.75 Coors at the All-Ranks Club and climb in and out of the backs of trucks ("It took four people to hoist me in, and I still pulled a muscle," said one ruefully). Then there's that mock ambush. "I wanted them to be shocked," says Major Randy Zeegers, a tall, poster-perfect Green Beret who functions...
...Scribner), has nowhere to go but up. Her father Chicky was in and out of prison, her mother Phyllis abandoned her as an infant, and Grandma Lil was known to shoplift dinner on her way home. Why did the author choose such a steep mountain for her heroine to climb? "I'm kind of interested in social class, which we're not supposed to have, but of course we do," says Isaacs. "We're such a mobile society--upwardly, downwardly and geographically...
Five Harvard undergraduates struggled to navigate routes of varying difficulty on indoor climbing walls this weekend, aiming to climb to the top of the awards podium at the fourth annual MIT Climbing Competition...