Word: ridden
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...murder charge. But jurors have long engaged in "jury nullification" in mercy killings, declining to convict even when the facts and law are damning. Still, juries are hard to predict. Last year a Louisiana man, David Rodriguez, rejected a plea bargain in the mercy killing of his Alzheimer's-ridden 90-year-old father. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Complicating matters for Kevorkian is that he seems intent on representing himself--a move his former attorney, Geoffrey Fieger, says could be disastrous...
That inability to critically assess their material hurts this compilation. Youth, one might think, would work well here, imparting pubescent angst to these most angst-ridden of tunes. Unfortunately, most of the bands featured have too much respect for the songs they cover, playing them in much the same style with only minor changes of tempo or instrumentation. This forces one inevitably to compare the originals--and the comparison often comes up short. The Gadjits' take on the Simple Minds classic "Don't You (Forget About Me)," for example, preserves the source's arrangement down to the deep voices...
...that makes it hard to project--but acting-wise, Rojas has fallen into the the trap of the magnificent singer who is plauged with an inability to act convincingly. He did seem to open up through the course of the opera, but his slightly grotesque nuzzling of the deathbed-ridden Violetta seemed contrived and ingenuine...
...faithful FM readers who journeyed to the Tsongas Arena last night only to discover that the Tori Amos concert you had traveled so far to see had happened the night before, this listing's for you. Before you can write a depressing, angst-ridden song about missing your chance to see your idol perform, Tori will take the stage tonight for real this time--we swear. 8 p.m., Whittermore Center Arena, University of New Hampshire, 128 Main St., Durham, NH. 603-868-7300. Tickets $26.50, students...
...Anti-Social Behavior" by Jonathan Jacoby (Opinion, Nov. 4): What is the justification for an individual's existence? The idea of justification appears in various places in Jacoby's op-ed, with millionaires justifying their existence through "corpulent, guilt-ridden" donations to charities, and in his claim that one's "career choice is only valid if you can justify it" to a "Tibetan political prisoner...