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...seems almost tacked-on, simply to leave the reader with a sense of finality. At the end of the book the corpse of Hazel Motes is returned to his boarding house after he runs away because his landlady is pressuring him to marry her. The novel comes to a close as the landlady looks into Hazel’s eyes “trying to see how she had been cheated or what had cheated her, but she couldn’t see anything... she felt as if she were blocked at the entrance of something.” While...
...intimacy is supposed to be the biggest draw though, according to Dein. “This is a circus that you can enjoy because the performers are that close to you and you feel that they are performing just...
...Finally, close your eyes, go slow, and remember to breathe...
...Kids.” For their second album, however, the group have refused to release any singles. Instead they recorded a cohesive body of work meant to be heard in one continuous sitting. As such, “Congratulations” contains no songs that come close to the New Order-inspired thrills of “Kids;” in fact, it’s hard to imagine a single track off this album making its way anywhere near a dance floor. Nevertheless, it succeeds in cohering as a thoroughly engaging and rewarding second album...
...batter she faced in her no-hitter against Columbia, which is really key for her to be able to put the batters away,” Roberts added. “Her rise ball was really on, and neither Penn nor Columbia’s batters could even come close to it…It was the best I’ve seen from her in a long time...