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...showerheads and toilets in dormitories. A helpful illustration adjacent to the toilet neatly summarizes the features of the new “dual-flush” technology—a more sophisticated, and more hygienic, version of an old scatological rhyme that recommends to “let it mellow...
...with more melodic, beautiful phrases, which allow him to display an almost soulful, slightly scratchy voice. “Rock ’N’ Roll Dream” encapsulates AC/DC’s new balance of balls out rock with something a bit softer. The relatively mellow verses are initially filled only by quiet and unobtrusive drums, a haunting solo guitar line, and Johnson’s voice. Quick crescendos then lift the track up to a high-energy chorus, “I could be in a rock ’n’ roll dream...
...than the first, which would seem like emotional growth if “Who Do You Think You Are” weren’t two tracks from the end. Still, the last song, “Ain’t Gonna Lose You,” has a mellow humility that goes a long way toward making you forget some of the things that came before. Oh, but “San Francisco.” His voice has that languid indie raspiness perfected by acts such as Regina Spektor and Arcade Fire, which lays on a coat...
...replies with a rasp: “You’re a drunk, you’re a stoner, you never came back.” Yet Williams’ penchant for composing meaningful and often melancholic music is in no way diminished. She sings tenderly on slower, more mellow songs like “Knowing” and “Plan to Marry,” demonstrating her talent to the fullest extent. The latter, a charming and stripped-down acoustic song, would be more appropriate in a coffeehouse in mid-winter than on this otherwise orchestrated country...
Autumn is not just the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, as Keats wrote, but also the widening of the class divide. For it brings the start of school, an institution that, particularly in crowded global cities like London, efficiently sorts kids by socioeconomic class. A 2004 study of British schoolchildren by University of Bristol researchers found that the wider the choice of schools parents have, the more segregated pupils are by background. I've seen this firsthand, having just dispatched my youngest child, Nicola, to school...