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Lyrically, the album isn’t particularly fascinating or thought-provoking. At their worst, the lyrics are inane nonsense??“Never had a false alarm / Softer than a baby’s arm”—but there are moments that are much cleverer—“All I have is time / To bring back this bloodline of mine.” However, considering the fact that Rogue’s voice is sometimes inaudible over the band’s walls of sound, this weakness doesn’t seem...

Author: By Thomas J. Snyder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rogue Wave | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

Although several of the pieces included in “Close Calls with Nonsense?? had previously appeared in various publications such as The London Review of Books, Burt said that he began to speak with publishers about compiling them into a book...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Burt Recognized For Critique of Poetry | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...drive to define one’s environment and oneself, the desire to assign value and make sense of nonsense??all these are worthy, difficult goals for the striving writer. For me, they are the chief appeal of journalism...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PARTING SHOTS: Time To Make Sense of It All | 6/5/2007 | See Source »

...media is co-opted on a daily basis, and its military campaign in Chechnya is rife with human right abuses. But despite Litvinenko’s letter, which openly blamed Putin, and a Kremlin’s defensive response—“The allegations are nothing but nonsense??— this plot seems far too linear. We need to criticize Russia for the more important reasons, without going bonkers about a dead spy before we have more evidence...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: A Plot Too Linear | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

...campus housing, where students would live in the city and connect with their teachers only at lectures. Instead, Oxford and Cambridge sought to develop residential colleges—what the founders of Harvard would later call “a real college” instead of the NYU-like nonsense??to foster student-faculty interaction...

Author: By Sahil K. Mahtani | Title: The Trouble With the Germans | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

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