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...Breakin’ the Law.” The album’s final track, “Metal Messiah,” shows, however, that Priest still contain the elements for fist-pumping arena action. The most up-tempo song on the album, it blasts open from the outset with a chugging and brutal riff, soon layered with the second guitar ringing out sustained harmonic notes. It quickly stalls into an off-and-on backbeat and then enters a classic Priest chorus, where Ripper wails the kind of cheesy-yet-appealing lyrics that won Priest fanfare...
...clock shadow, brandishing a cigarette and gazing at us with obstinate skepticism. By posing as the craggy dissident, as if slumped in the corner of some dim café, the British-born journalist and author evidently seeks to cast himself as a morose rebel from the outset. The mission of Letters to a Young Contrarian, the latest addition to a career carved in stubborn public controversy, fits in nicely with this conceit: the seasoned revolutionary passes his wisdom onto flame-brained youth...
Beyond meticulous organization, the PSLM was conscious from the outset of the other factors conspiring to raise their media prominence into the stratosphere. Bartley concedes that there “was a definite visual intensity of the image which we didn’t even need to choregraph,” this photogenic nature of the strike stemming in no small part from the mystique of Harvard itself. But, across from the omniscient eye of John Harvard, the students realised that Harvard’s hallowed name was both a boon and a burden for their cause...
...could move into the Taliban's heartland to collect a resistance leader was cause for confidence; less so, though, the fact that Karzai needed rescuing in the first place. Pashtun warlords have plainly not defected to the anti-Taliban cause in anything like the numbers hoped for at the outset of the bombing campaign...
...overtime defeat comforted by the fact that it was not that far from winning. The Crimson made good defensive decisions to the point where UConn needed a fortuitous bounce on a free kick to actually win the game. Harvard especially looked good at the outset of every period, when the team had several scoring chances on corner kicks and actually outcornered UConn overall...