Word: folke
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...despite not being a lawyer. His defense against overwhelming FBI evidence was that they had caught him in the midst of a sting operation he was running unbeknownst to anyone else in the sheriff’s department. How can such a flagrantly outrageous man not be an American folk hero...
When Pat Metheny took the stage at the Orpheum Theatre on April 14, he set the stage for an evening of unadorned music. Unassumingly dressed under a tangled mat of hair, Metheny sat on a monitor speaker, hunched over his guitar and eased into a straightforward, honest folk ballad...
None of the imagined interactions sink to the level of absurdity that often comes with such anachronism, and the characters remain entirely believable throughout. Perlman made a shrewd decision in casting Samuel H. Perwin ’04 in two roles. As the Balladeer, he sings simplistic folk-style description and commentary on the first three completed assassinations. After the Balladeer is driven from the stage by a horde of bitter assassins, Perwin reappears in the final scenes as Lee Harvey Oswald...
...another instance, a discussion between Ben and his classmate Sean Harding reveals a great insight into British culture. When listening to a modern interpretation of an old English folk song, Ben and Sean identify its melancholy as quintessentially English. “The English are a very violent people,” Sean says. “People don’t realize it, but we are. We repent afterwards, which is why we are so melancholy. But first of all we do whatever has to be done...
...article in the left-leaning Guardian suggested that there was more ambivalence toward the event than generally acknowledged and said that if traditionalists mourned the death of a lady who embodied a long-gone Gosford Park era, young Britons felt far less emotional attachment to royalty and progressive folk did not miss those deference-filled times at all. An editorial in the newspaper meanwhile claimed the nation had created an "idealized image" of the Queen Mother, who after all had lived "a life of anachronistic extravagance" - and enjoyed her tipple...