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When tourism hits a lull during the fall months, the American and European tourists who are there cannot walk a spleef's length without attracting some sort of attention from the locals. It is often hard to distinguish friendliness from salesmanship among Jamaicans, which can be off-putting--nearly every conversation leads to a proposition to buy somethings: hair braids, motor scooters, marijuana, mushroom tea, ecstasy, heroin, cocaine, or crack. But even if it seems like the Jamaican local is aiming to grab that $20 bill pasted on each tourist's forehead, these dealers are nothing to be afraid...
...might be inconvenient, but it's necessary. If you want that job, you need to take the time to sift through the hundreds of similar companies and figure things out for yourself. You need to meet the people who will be evaluating your resume and make an effort to distinguish yourself from your classmates...
...reconcile his traces of love with the reality of heartbreak. The lyrics convey the narrator's simultaneous rage at his lover's silent suffering and at his own obliviousness. This is the roughness of love: its strange contradictions, its pain and its insensibility. Similarly poignant and delicate expressions distinguish the album as a whole, full of songs about the attempt to reconstruct love from fragments from the past, from dreams and objects--truly, as the album title suggests, painting music out of the haze of memory...
...tall. It's all about perspective. And some perspectives are clearly warped or blurred or badly starved for the blue plate special of the day. Because Catatonia is not brilliant in any way; it does not take much generosity to listen them out, but they don't distinguish themselves particularly from all those other groups in the lucky dip bin of 'pretty good' pop groups out there...
...line publication, Icon follows in the wake of popular mainstream sites like Salon and Slate but will try to distinguish itself by becoming fully multimedia...