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...label. Neither Benson nor his rhythm guitarists ever take solos and stray away from founding chords in performance or on the album, but this is one damn good garage band. Benson Benson is a much better than average vocalist, his licks are compelling, and his experimentation within the garage idiom so refreshing that restraint hardly matters. Lapalco’s appropriately titled opener “Tiny Spark” greets with random electronica samples from the mid-1980s, but then rolls over into an upbeat, self-confessing rocker that is quintessential road music. Instead of upping the ante, Benson...
...wife architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien were the perfect team for this vest-pocket New York City museum. Their famous feel for craft and material is something that folk artists understand. But their exercises in stone, glass and ingeniously textured metals are carried out within a modernist idiom that never looks quaint or "folkloric." Who knew you could work so many delightful configurations of space and surprising vistas--plus three staircases--into a relatively small building? It's a jewel-box museum that's a jewel in itself...
...wife architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien were the perfect team for this vest-pocket New York City museum. Their famous feel for craft and material is something that folk artists understand. But their exercises in stone, glass and ingeniously textured metals are carried out within a modernist idiom that never looks quaint or "folkloric." Who knew you could work so many delightful configurations of space and surprising vistas - plus three staircases - into a relatively small building? It's a jewel-box museum that's a jewel in itself...
...English Emeritus at Wellesley College, Ferry is an esteemed scholar and poet. Critics have often noted his ability to bring the poetry he is translating—whether an ode of Horace, an eclogue of Virgil or a passage from Gilgamesh—into remarkably fresh and immediate English idiom...
...With the more than $300 million she raised as president of Smith College from 1995 to 2001, Simmons established an engineering program (the first at any women's school) and added seminars focused on public speaking to purge the ubiquitous "likes" and "ums" from the campus idiom. At a meeting to discuss the future of Smith's math department, one professor timidly requested two more discussion sections for his course. Her response: "Dream bigger...