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...image of rain is a fair one to employ both in regard to the night and the band’s sound, downcast but with shining points of brilliance, tiny and unexpected chord changes when a song has seemed to have fallen into pattern. Clearlake’s songs are involving, engaging and perhaps the only adjective all-encompassing and vague enough to describe this sound of rock might just be “British...
...twinkle jocular has now become a commencement oration deeply serious. Yet the orator leaves us no doubt that a great dogma is involved that of our democracy. He is quite consciously subversive. He even protests against the old system as tending to turn there out all of one pattern, like Waltham watches or Ford cars". By and large, however, it cannot be said that philosophy has inspired or even tinged the new movement. The great sister university, though treading the same path of progress fiercely presents the undemocratic implication. In nine colleges out of ten the primum mobile of progress...
...answer. I think I would have actually been less lonely by myself in my own room." Don't get the wrong idea - Gondry's youth in Versailles, France, was happy, richly colored by the creative ethos of his computer-programmer dad and his musician mom. Fascinated by geometry and pattern, Gondry went to art school. At 22, he was working for a calendar printer - "Boring!" - when he figured out he wasn't born to be anyone's employee. "So I did everything I could to get fired," he says, "coming in later and later every morning. They told...
...public, declaring that, if elected, he would withdraw Australian troops from Iraq by Christmas. It was a bold maneuver. The U.S. coalition in Iraq—already flimsy since the terrorist attacks in Spain—needs unconditional endorsement from its remaining major allies, but the recent pattern suggests that the Bush administration’s support from the world will be further curtailed by the end of the year...
...aspiring entrepreneur I couldn’t help but watch Donald Trump’s “Apprentice,” pitting male brawn against the marketing power of female sexuality. For those clever enough to avoid such morally-debauched viewing, the show follows a simple pattern. Two teams fight to escape elimination by implementing successful business programs, whilst plugging one of Trump’s numerous business ventures. Put more simply, two teams utilize their female members’ attractiveness to sell products by placing them before crowds of people in ridiculously short and tight clothing...