Word: fingering
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...gained widespread attention after his cover of the Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights” appeared on the “Garden State” soundtrack. Fittingly enough, he played a set full of inspired reworkings of his own catalog.A stripped-down, softly finger-picked version of “Southern Anthem” was the best example of the merit of this approach for an audience familiar with his recorded material. Lyrical couplets like “Frozen, the river that baptized you/And the horse died standing up” came...
...play opened, he says, the fact that critics didn’t acknowledge the gravity of the subject matter infuriated him. “I think at the beginning, people thought I was making these things up,” he says.In most of these frustrations, Robbins points his finger at the “media,” which he believes was responsible for faulty reporting during the war’s earliest stages and continues to do so. “The shameful thing is that CNN allowed that to happen. And NBC, ABC, and the rest...
...those who really like to keep their finger on the pulse of the student body, there is an “Endpaper” at the back of each issue. This is essentially a personal essay in which students describe how ostensibly lame and depressing their lives are and then try to flip the script and claim that they are perfectly content. They generally achieve this effect through flowery prose, self-delusion, and false claims that they “go into Boston a lot.” In other words, if you’re thinking of killing yourself...
...10’’ wearing heels, I almost always am—not only are you left with black and blues, but tired quads and achy knees. Sounds more like running stadiums than dancing to reggaeton.Perhaps I was spoiled by a finger-snapping father who pulled my sisters and I onto the dance-floor as soon as “Mac the Knife” began to play, by my party-loving mother who taught us each how to fox-trot at an early age, or by my grandparents, Kathryn and Arthur Murray, who spawned a generation...
...term loosely) in some sort of vaguely-defined warehouse environment, he and his bandmates indulge in heterosexual man-hugs, random flaunting of jewelry, and unforgivably literal interpretation of lyrics. The last is most annoying; all the pointing on the word “you,” finger-walking on the word “walk,” and flinging apart of arms on the word “free” might have been intended to be dramatic, but instead look like a half-assed sign language translation. In case the gestures weren’t obvious enough...