Word: disappointing
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...habit of telling silent stories to people who slight him—people whom he thinks would act differently if they knew the story of his suffering. Slowly but surely, Deng’s story unfolds through narratives he intends for various people who disappoint him in America. Everything from the happy, simpler days of Deng’s childhood to the horrors of the Lost Boys’ trek through the desert to his new life of adjusting to various American cities is subtly rendered and full of unembellished emotion. Given almost constant exposure to the new and other...
...recently resuscitated group (lead singer Kristopher Roe is the only original member remaining), you may be left wondering what’s become of The Ataris’ catchy, youthful sound. With this album, the band that left high school punk rock fans for the mainstream may even disappoint the squares who rocked out to “The Boys of Summer” and “In This Diary” from “Goodbye, Astoria.” Though the band’s Web site praises their hard work, calling the new record...
...with me, I invited all of his roommates to go to see ‘The DaVinci Code,’” Amy says of their first date. “This was the only one willing to drop everything and go. I was a little disappointed,” she jokes. “Luke? Really?”Luke lightheartedly counters, saying that it was “partially desperation” that accounted for their spending time together at first.The pair met a little over a year ago. “Apparently it wasn?...
...indie lovers and adventurous, dabbling mainstreamers. The band worked on the album with Garret “Jacknife” Lee, who has produced albums by Kasabian, Snow Patrol, and U2. The resulting LP, “A Weekend In The City,” will not likely disappoint, as it builds upon the success of their first album with catchy up-tempo dance beats and the moody lyrics of lead singer Kele Okereke. The album opens with Okereke in an almost theatrical falsetto on the track “Song For Clay (Disappear Here),” before...
...smart decision,” said Cuse. “Those six episodes couldn’t be everything everyone wanted.” But Cuse assures even the most hard-core of fans that the rest of season three will not disappoint.“When viewed in its totality, season three will be phenomenal,” he said.Fans of the show poured into Sanders Theatre to watch the uninterrupted episode on the big screen. The event was sponsored by the Office for the Arts at Harvard. “It was great to see everyone?...