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...guess Disney felt the ticky-tacky tikis needed an update, and now there are hints of rap instead of ?Hawaiian War Chant.? Bad mistake. The kitsch was right at the heart of the old room?s charm - it was cheesier than the Vegas it parodied, and therein rested its modest charm...
When Mike Larsen was five years old, cars or buildings weren’t just the playthings of his imagination—he wanted to know how to construct them and would often make modest attempts in his backyard. Later, while mining his mother’s record collection—a mix of Sly, Metallica and Sugar Hill Gang—he grew curious about how to build these...
...This Sounds Gas, a wonderfully post-indie record that was equal parts Neil Young and early U2. Comprised of shaky-yet-deeply-felt lyrics and guitar lines that lazily pointed at the sky without ever gathering the momentum to soar, the music lodged in the brain despite its modest ambitions...
...boosted Harvard’s record to 2-2, but the modest mark is almost as deceptive as Saturday’s score—both losses came at the hands of schools in the Top 10, and the previous victory was an unexpected 4-1 triumph over No. 18 Kentucky...
This much is wonderful: Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer's Kitchen Stories, in which he imagines an observer named Folke (Tomas Norstrom) perched in a sort of tennis umpire's chair, watching an old man named Isak (Joachim Calmeyer) doing his modest culinary chores. They're not allowed to talk; it would ruin the experiment's purity. But, of course, they do, these two lonesome men leading minimalist lives in the snow-shrouded countryside...