Word: frans
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...main act's. Except for their opening song (the much-overlooked 1997 single "All I Want to Do is Rock") Travis' set contained mostly songs from their recent album, with the biggest response coming for the gorgeous current single "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" Lead singer Fran Healy has the unique ability to make something trite sound like a display of pure vulnerability, and his use of speeches in between songs never came across as pretentious...
Unlike their tour mates, Travis never goes in for loud stadium-rocking tunes. The Man Who was named after an Oliver Sacks book on synaesthesia, the condition in which senses are confused so that one can "hear" colors, for instance, and Fran Healy's vocals on the album are so delicately beautiful it seems you can almost feel them on your skin. Somehow Healy manages to sound vulnerable without being precious or self-pitying. Perhaps it's the counterbalancing of pained lyrics (the title of their first single "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" says it all, really) with...
...current life lacks. Or maybe other seniors and I are drawn back to our homes because making something of ourselves back there would mean more than it would in the impolite anonymity of a strange, big city. Maybe I just really don't dig the Northern accent (in Texas, Fran Drescher is officially classified as a game animal...
Senior Associate Director Fran Toland, who has worked for the Harvard Athletic Department for 41 years, has announced his retirement effective June...
...Fran's retirement will be a loss for all of Harvard, not just the Athletic Department," Cleary said in a press release. "His financial stewardship has allowed us to do many great things, and he has quietly brought honor and dignity to our department. Through it all, Fran has always kept his vision that our primary purpose is the well-being of our student-athletes...