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Alan’s father Frank (Robert A. O’Donnell ’05) is an atheistic printer who forbids his son to watch TV; his mother Dora (Jen H. Rugani ’07) is an indulgent and deeply religious former schoolteacher. The actors and director avoid the temptation of giving Alan too tempestuous of a home life; despite their fights, Frank and Dora are a charismatic couple who love both each other and their son. When Frank begins to laugh at himself after overreacting to a man who has given Alan a disapproved-of horseback ride...
Sure, a little of this goes a long way, but a lot of it goes even further. There's a mesmerizing, hummingbird quality to Scar Tissue that's hard to resist. It's a frank, unsparing, meticulous account of a life lived entirely on impulse, for pleasure and for kicks, and Kiedis (or possibly his co-author, Larry Sloman) has a gift for describing pleasure, especially that of playing music with your pals, something that rarely comes through on the page. The best scene in the book occurs when the Peppers first hook up with drummer Chad Smith, who walks...
...when manufacturing glitches resulted in an almost two-month-long delay in shipments of vaccine. And although the problems have come to a head in the past few years, their roots go back at least two decades. "A lot of people have been asleep at the wheel," says Dr. Frank Sloan, director of the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management at Duke University in Durham, N.C. "There are systemic problems that needed to be ad- dressed and haven't been...
Since every one of the songs on Frank Black Francis was previously recorded, and in almost every instance more memorably, by the Pixies during Mr. Black Francis/Frank Black’s original tenure with the group, none of the songs on the new double-album—which bookends the Pixies’ career Phase I—is destined to be a revelation. Disc One contains fifteen demos recorded by Mr. Francis (perhaps apocryphally) the day before the Pixies went into the studio to record their debut Come On Pilgrim; Disc Two offers almost as many remakes of Pixies...
...case of the latter, and elsewhere, only moderately effective. Mr. Black was assisted in the Disc Two project by art-punkers Two Pale Boys, and it is evident in the musical production that he (and they) took great delight in refashioning Black Francis’s songs into Frank Black’s covers. Where it isn’t always evident, unfortunately, is in the vocals, often coming across as either weak or too ornamental given the song material, and at times (“Where is My Mind?”) just plain silly. Particularly excessive...