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...from her ambulance stretcher was one of the only glimmers of good news, as the magnitude of the loss of life and property destruction was tallied in and around the city of L'Aquila in the region of Abruzzo, near the epicenter of the 6.3-magnitude quake. Indeed, the lifeless bodies of four other students were pulled from the rubble in the hours after Marta was rescued. The tiny town of Onna, just six miles outside of L'Aquila, was the hardest hit: 40 of its some 300 residents were killed. Across the region an estimated 1,000 people were...
...have figured out; in a kind of epiphany, Kanye decides that he’s all of these things, plus a painter— all too literally, a Renaissance man. “Knock You Down” begins and ends with Keri Hilson’s seemingly lifeless body falling slowly through the air, but neither this bizarre sight nor later shenanigans by Ne-Yo is any match for the Kanye Show. His act opens with him rapping about Louis Vuitton and Reebok, telling us to “keep rocking and keep knocking” and talking about...
...Fez—Being Born,” recover from this, while others aren’t as fortunate. One such track, “Moment of Surrender,” is much too slow and labored to occupy its seven minute length; the drums sound overly monotonous and lifeless, and there’s an unnecessary, unbelievably boring guitar solo in the closing minutes. Bono yelps in an admirable attempt at soulfulness, but it sounds forced and disingenuous.The grinding intro of “Get On Your Boots” is catchy, but gives way to awkwardly tossed...
...into a man in only the broadest, brightest strokes. For a movie trying to revive interest in one of rap’s most storied and complicated figures—a movie trying to give Biggie life after death—“Notorious” is rather lifeless. The toughest dilemma that biopics face is deciding where to crop the canvas of their subjects’ lives, and “Notorious” solves this problem by deciding not to crop at all. After opening with Wallace’s death, the film breezes through his childhood...
Linoleum floors, white walls, and random posters pulled from roommates’ recycling bins may suffice for most students’ nine-month dorm stint. But there are some who rebel against college dorm norm. These students put their creativity to work and transform lifeless, Harvard-issued rooms into havens for the academic year...