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Frontman Robert Nanna has a strong and plaintive, if somewhat unremarkable voice. The lyrics are mostly indistinct—which is not a huge loss to humanity—and wander mostly over onto the wrong side of the personal self-revelatory/Dadaist random incoherency divide. Nothing resembles a narrative, and characters underpin most of the songs. A fairly random sampling, from “Our Weekend Starts on Wednesday” yields: “Out of the darkness / Sings a signal to our sleep / APB for every dream / Dead within the week / Hooray...
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...dragnet that picked up over 1,200 people - 641 of whom are still in custody - seems to have netted a lot of people guilty of minor immigration offenses but little else. Justice officials have admitted that only two dozen have any real, demonstrable terrorism links. As for the random interviews, shouldn?t the feds be working harder to develop ties with the Muslim community, rather than casting a suspicious eye on them? They need good relations to pick up informants and tips - not random questioning...
Crothers came slightly out of net to cut down Dziama’s shooting angle and got his glove on the puck to deflect the shot, but a random bounce sent the puck high into the air and landed it directly behind Crothers’ left skate...
With most biographies, it's only the specialist reader who bothers to flip back to the footnotes. Not so with Theodore Rex (Random House; 772 pages; $35). The second volume of Edmund Morris' projected three-volume set on the life of Teddy Roosevelt is likely to have just about everybody taking a peek back there once or twice. People are going to want to reassure themselves that the gifted but infamous Morris has not made up some of his nicely observed details, and not just because so much of this book has the hurtling pace and alert eye of good...