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House spirit: Although some people come back to Cabot only to sleep, Cabot offers a very pleasant and intimate community for people who spend any time in the House. The House list is usually full of routine requests and announcements, but sometimes debates (most recently, one on pornography) get everyone riled up. House Committee-sponsored events usually are fairly low-key get-togethers, but there are a few big events every year, including a catered Festivus dinner and the annual Dutch Auction...
What happens when a U.S. military plane carrying a chemical weapon (codenamed “Trixie”), meant to “destabilize a population,” crashes, and accidently releases the weapon into the water supply of the pleasant, unassuming town of Ogden Marsh, Iowa? Turns out people go a little crazy...
...later last night, to sour this pleasant experience, I also had to watch Smith's new movie: the sluggish, formulaic Cop Out, which stars Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan as a couple of New York policemen tracking a drug lord and saving a kidnap victim while attending haphazardly to their respective family travails. "Nine years we been together," Paul (Morgan) says to his partner Jimmy (Willis) at the film's beginning. Indeed, the movie feels like a fourth or fifth installment of a cop-buddy franchise, when habit has replaced invention, and the stars' chemistry has evaporated. Willis puts...
...family’s only beacon lies in an ever-elusive gentleman caller, Jim O’Connor (the pleasant and jocular Anthony J. Sterle ’11), whose presence, they hope, will cure their ills...
...afternoon strumming of the laconic acoustic and the waves of organ that sweep through the wide-open spaces of the song like wind in fields of grain. Adu pulls off some memorable melodies, making use of her powerful and malleable voice, but the track somehow feels distant and merely pleasant. The instruments still sound prepackaged and the chord changes, while effective, remain obvious. The production, though nearly flawless, places more of an emotional divide between the band and the listener than there should be on what could have been such a relatable song...