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...when sophomores Emily Tay and Katie Rollins met each other for the first time. But after a few minutes alone with them, you would guess they have known each other for a lifetime.At first glance, the two seem to be complete opposites. Tay, from Los Angeles, Calif., is the quieter of the two—the more reserved and collected one. Rollins hails from Augusta, Maine—a world apart from the sunshine and glitz of LA—but she is the more talkative one, usually the voice for both of them. “It?...
They fare slightly better on the quieter songs “Cancer” and “Disenchanted,” which, while lyrically as bombastic as any of the other tracks, manage a few moments of musical understatement, with simple piano or guitar lines before they jet off into the emosphere. While the writing is stronger here, lead singer Gerard Way’s voice is least suited to these songs, with a nasal quality that can’t do sadness well, quietly...
...TIME: Do you imagine being visible, having a public role, or do you think you will be quieter...
...benefits are grounded in biology, says Flexer. The brain's auditory networks are not fully developed until about age 15, so kids require a quieter environment and a louder signal than do adults when absorbing spoken information. Flexer has found that special-education referrals are fewer in classrooms that are wired for sound, compared with ordinary classrooms, where background noise and distractions compete with the teacher's voice. She believes a sound system is as vital to learning as adequate lighting...
...swelling lonesomeness was amplified by Ward’s plaintive harmonica playing; in devoting an entire verse to the instrument, he showed off a formidable instrumental talent that added a fresh layer to Ward’s antiqued radio-sentimentalism. “Helicopter,” from the quieter “Transfiguration of Vincent,” also benefited from some harp revisionism...