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...mastery of this musical détente proves that he very well could. It’s a remarkable play of tension and one that makes the album both thrilling and frightening.Take, for example, “Rivers.” Bejar holds off until just past the halfway mark, then cuts loose in a crash of screaming, cymbals, piano, and spastic classic rock guitar. Likewise, both “The State” and “Plaza of Trinidad” manage to merge country tinges, bluesy undertones, and prog-rock guitar, but both explode halfway through (with...
...he’s particularly interested in saving. He’s right that I, like most Mavs fans, am “still not over that loss to the Warriors, and probably never will be” and that I “can no longer rationalize that Mark Cuban is a positive influence.” But those are the only assumptions Leitch makes about his reader that apply to me. Too much of the book is written for your twenty-something sports bar regular who thinks his love of sports is a reflection of his masculinity. While...
...command of “On your mark, get set, guacamole!” competitors began working on their concoctions while spectators mingled and munched on free chips and guacamole provided by Chipotle...
...None of these confessions were muttered accidentally. After McCain dropped the line about the strip club in Pensacola, I asked Mark McKinnon, the campaign's media advisor, if drunken escapades at strip clubs were a good message for a presidential campaign. "That's why we like him," McKinnon said with a smile. "That's why he has potential appeal to young people...
...What distinguishes McCain's redemption tale is its elaborate detail. Two books, Faith of My Fathers, which McCain co-wrote with his speechwriter and adviser Mark Salter, and The Nightingale's Song, by Robert Timberg, flesh out in intimate detail the misbehavior of McCain's youth, as the set-up for a hero's narrative...