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...given tiles of different colors and symbols that you must place next to others, domino style. If you clear the board, you move up to the next harder level with more colors and symbols. The higher you go, the harder it gets--and the more exalted the rank you achieve when at last you lose. Not to brag, but I have got as high as Alchemist third degree, which is one rank above Grand Wizard. And two above my wife...
Brubeck. Marsalis. Miles and Duke and Louis and Lady Day and Count Basie and Bird and Prez, and Benny Goodman too: it's folly to rank on Burns for spending so much time on these looming figures because, at the last, they are the ones who made the history he is setting down here. Writer Ward has compared the various warring partisans of jazz to a dysfunctional family, and all the sniping and complaining about short shrift for today's talent miss the mark that he and Burns aimed for. They are laying a foundation, making this music, whether...
Using the council's single transferable vote (STV) system, voters have the opportunity to rank each of the candidates. In each round, the lowest-ranking candidate is eliminated, and votes for that candidate are redistributed to the voters' second choices. This is repeated until one candidate receives a majority...
Using the single transferable vote (STV) system, voters had the opportunity to rank each of the candidates. In each round, the lowest-ranking candidate is eliminated, and votes for that candidate are redistributed to those voters' second choices, until one candidate receives a majority...
Stories, which I rank as the best release of the year, draws a picture of P.J. that her fans have never seen. After suffering a nervous breakdown in 1992, Harvey coped through her art, expressing a bitter, beautiful blend of anger and resignation, but not without an ever-present glimmer of hopeful longing. This album suggests she may have temporarily found what she has been looking for: a little happiness and some genuine love. Her vocals seem more relaxed, her guitar a bit less austere and the tunes somewhat more welcoming. On "Big Exit," Harvey meditates on human suffering...