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...this, believe it or not, is played for laughs (in one scene the pair smash a skeleton to smithereens), but McDonagh's comedy, unlike Lonergan's, never seems pasted on, or patronizing. We never lose sight of the dark drama beneath it: the harrowing picture of human beings driven half-mad by lives of crabbed, inbred isolation...
...they were. These are great songs, pure and simple - two words that describe them perfectly. "(Theme From) The Monkees" works just like the stroll down the street whose rhythm inspired its composition, a nice-guy "We're the Jets"; "Last Train to Clarksville" is a guitar-driven thing of pop splendor; "I'm a Believer" and "A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You" remind us what a distinctive stylist Neil Diamond was before he descended in the bathos-sphere with "I Am, I Cried" and "Longfellow Serenade." And "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone" simply rocks...
...same unique style of melodic progressions that stamps his Chili Peppers work (the coda of "Around the World," on the recent Californication is a good example, as is the opening melody of the title track). The opening track, "Going Inside," begins with a brief but excellent feedback-driven solo. The track, along with others like "Remain" and "Fallout" has a distinctly Middle-Eastern melodic feel. Perhaps not coincidentally, these songs, together with the lovely instrumental "Murderers" and the near-perfect pop song "Moments Have You," are the standouts on the album. The songs are mostly in a similar shuffling tempo...
Munching on cookies and sipping tea, students spoke with Faust on a range of topics--from women in the sciences to Radcliffe's new role at Harvard as a research-driven institute...
...Florack said he thought that he had driven over something in the street, and felt that something was wrong with the front...