Word: echoed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Players echo Connors' sentiments, saying success ultimately comes down to the team mentality...
...endangered species here: cornered, and at times a bit lonely and afraid. Still, Petty evokes rock's glory days with fresh vigor on this CD. His voice seems comfortably worn, ably evoking Bob Dylan's articulate whine and Neil Young's angelic, countrified croon. The songs on Echo don't mess with the form much: they arrive, they rock, they leave. This CD isn't a knockout, but it has punch...
...previous typecasting as she ditches her nice girl image that has followed her from My So-Called Life to Romeo and Juliet to Les Miserables and replaces it with a tougher character. In the recent trend of theme-sharing movies (war, asteroids, bugs), this plot seems to echo Return to Paradise (drugs and Americans in trouble with the law in Asia). Another interesting tidbit is that a thoughtless quote by Danes about living conditions in Manila, Philippines, where it was filmed, led to violent reactions. There is talk of banning all Claire Danes' movies from Manila forever...
...rape). But without RUS funding, many organizations could die. The organizations and events RUS has sponsored include The Male Athletes Forum, Swanwhite, Crimson Dance Team, the Coalition Against Sexual Violence, the Tampoon, individual student research in Nepal and Israel, Hillel speaker Lynn Davidman, Girlspot, WISHR, the Athena Conference, ECHO, Hillel Women's Group, Lighthouse Magazine, Radcliffe Rugby, BGLTSA, the Philippine Forum, Women and Youth in Support of Each Other (WYSE), Speak up, MHAAG speaker Kay Jamison, IMPACT, Mainly Jazz Dance Company, self defense courses, Latinas Unidas, Association of Black Radcliffe Women (ABRW), South Asian Women's Collective, Women in Economics...
True to its name, Echo carries Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers back from the quiet brooding of their She's the One soundtrack to the territory they cover best, both lyrically and stylistically: independence, defiance, rebellious love. Strange themes for a bunch of middle-aged industry veterans, but satisfyingly appropriate when you consider their enduring drive to crank out solid '60s-era rock 'n roll when their closest contemporaries have gone adult contemporary. "Free Girl Now," is a pounding emancipatory salute that, along with the similarly triumphant "Swingin,'" and "Room At The Top" showcases the band's "screw 'em" mentality...