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...characters loved and hated deeply, soared high and were tortured with abysmal despair. For them, he plundered the rich, ravaged history of Mississippi and the Deep South, which, he said, "might be wretched, but it can howl." Many have chronicled this past, but none have captured its psyche as Barry did. He wrote and lived his life in the same way he led the post-Faulkner literary renaissance in Oxford--wide open and fearlessly, the same way that Civil War cavalrymen rode into battle, hurling an expression that Barry often employed when signing books for friends: "Sabers...
...with a staccato aggression and Adu’s overdubbed voice hits multiple registers, weaving a tapestry of interlocking vocal snippets that drive the song’s dynamics from the arid determination of the opening to the rising chorus of wandering lovers. Distorted guitars and synthesizers howl like frigid winds through the track, slicing Adu’s distant vocals and keeping the song from becoming repetitive...
...final decade she did voice work (for the English-language version of Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle), and just last year she starred as the matriarch of a troubled family in the film Shadows in the Sun, back in her native U.K. In its modest way, this marked the return of Jean Simmons, a prodigious daughter. She had beguiled the British movie world as a teen, rose to one of the higher Hollywood hills in her 20s, then had to settle for being a working actress - still very pretty, but not quite so proud...
...chase winds through the streets of Cambridge, passersby look on with mixed expressions of confusion and amusement. Some howl along, some yell words of encouragement, but most respond with baffled smiles...
...stage,” says Shcherban, and HRSFA’s play is about tribal paint, a pack of hunters, and a half-naked freshman. Primal scream is about a month away, but these predators are already getting in touch with their Wyld side. Next time you hear a howl off in the distance late one November night, take off your shirt, throw on some paint, and join the hunt...