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...There was no real rhyme or reason to it--it was helter-skelter," Rankin said. "It wasn't like most full-court presses. They just started coming after us in all directions. It made it very hard to find lanes going down the court...
...second half was really up and down, up and down," he said. "They had a really unorthodox press. There was no rhyme or reason to it. But somehow we got stagnant and bogged down against it. We didn't react well...
When we come home and we retreat to our bedrooms after saying a short "hello" to the parents, we don't necessarily run into our closets and find that old tuba and play it while dad sings a nursery rhyme along with us. Instead, we usually run into our backpacks, where can find the convenient walk- man and drain our parents' complaints away with the distorted sounds of Pearl...
...best song on the CD is 25, a track that seems like the nursery-rhyme version of a troubled young woman's diary. "When I was five/ I took a dive," Gordon sings. "When I was 10/ I walked again." The song closes with a thunderous guitar solo that evokes the frustration and jubilation of being in one's 20s -- sort of like MTV's The Real World packed into a couple dozen screeching notes. It's moments like the one at the end of 25 that separate Veruca Salt from bands that deserve the squirrel treatment. The members allow...
...Barnes, Gwendolyn Brooks and Ralph Ellison-present a rather motley collection. When I spoke to Harper, and Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Languages and Afro-American Studies here at Harvard, earlier this week, he explained that the subjects of his analysis had indeed been cosen 'without rhyme or reason." "These authors compelled me ," he enthused. "Intuitively, there must be some reason...