Word: rathering
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...press,” Donnelly says, “is to do things that are worthwhile projects in terms of the world of ideas or scholarship…We want to spend our money—what money we have—doing that kind of thing rather than try to publish something that will sell lots of copies and make lots of money. We want to do something positive for the world of ideas...
...studio with their guitars one balmy afternoon. While the songs are as tranquil (and drum-shy) as ever—though perhaps a wee bit sunnier, thanks to a hint of bossa nova influence—they’re effortless in a way that suggests lack of precision rather than artistic aptitude...
...they’re also just not as catchy. Part of the problem is that they fail to develop their austere plucking into any grander themes, as the best selections from previous albums have managed to do. On 2004’s “I’d Rather Dance With You,” still their most perfectly crafted pop song to date, a stair-stepping piano outro elevates a jaunty beat to perfection; on 2001’s “I Don’t Know What I Can Save You From...
Even the transgressive sexual dynamic that takes hold of the final chapter is hemmed in by the novel’s overtly intellectualized conceit. Pegeen’s reversion from lesbianism, rather than providing the sufficiently developed emotional component that would complicate the novel in an engaging way, merely serves to mix and match psychoanalytic tropes through progressively convoluted and prop-oriented sexual encounters. She becomes a symbol for Axler’s diminished potency, literally wearing a symbol of phallic power during their lovemaking, and his realization of that fact does little more than render it explicit...
...We’re not looking at vast expansions of financial commitments,” Faust said. “It’s a time where we are thinking about other instrumentalities rather than expanding costs...