Word: marr
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...Life Is a Succession of People Saying Goodbye”—the track most recalling The Smiths with its jangly Johnny Marr guitar—highlights Morrissey’s idiosyncratic singing until a harp budges in and confuses the mood. The depressive lyrics hit a little too close to home, as Morrissey seems somewhat conscious of his own recent mediocrity: “At one time the future / Did stretch out before me / But now / It stretched behind...
...that could compete with the likes of Strummer/Jones and Jagger/Richards (if not quite Lennon/McCartney). The Smiths are the band that Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher grew up listening to, and their influence can still be heard in the 21st century work of The Libertines and Arctic Monkeys. By involving Marr and Morrissey in the track selection and mastering, and striking the perfect balance between hits and rarities, “The Sound of the Smiths” is the greatest hits album that the band and their fans deserve.The first disc of “The Sound of the Smiths?...
...recitatives. In a Baroque opera, gestures are instrumental in communicating feeling. This stylization is understandably difficult to grasp, and resulted in artifice; the poses were affected rather than affecting.As Erisbe, Felicia Plunkett could not manage smooth transitions from comedy to farcical complexity to sobriety, allowing inappropriate smirks to marr her beautiful, lyric soprano. It can’t be easy, though, to betray three men simultaneously in the show’s first hour and emerge as a paragon of fidelity in the second one. She didn’t have an excellent romantic figure to work with...
There is little he can do at ground level to change the National Police - its recruiting and staffing are handled in Baghdad by the Shi'ite-dominated Ministry of Interior. "What's the long-term goal for what they're going to do with those guys?" Marr asked. "I don't really know...
...better success implementing the American side of the strategy. "We came in whole hog under the new counter-insurgency doctrine," Marr said. He added that with a more engaged American presence in the area, tensions between Sunnis and Shi'ites have eased. That assessment is seconded by soldiers like Specialist Benjamin Block, 24. He served two tours in Iraq with the Marine Corps before joining the Army last July. His final trip with the Marines was as part of the unit that took over for Marr's 82nd Airborne in Fallujah. "The area around Fallujah wasn't really secure," Block...