Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gloss of this album prevents us from really communing with his pain. The confessional My Father's Eyes, the CD's opening number, is so polished and plodding it never comes close to evoking emotion in the listener--unless you consider boredom an emotion. As for the next cut, River of Tears, it has a central metaphorical construction so lazy that one half expects the next track to be titled Needle in a Haystack. Simple, direct wordplay can work if the lyrics hit upon something primal and urgent. River of Tears, however, merely drifts away, ineffectual and insubstantial...
...mega-aggressive in planning out meals for the week; if you don't, you will find yourself with-out lunch and spending money to eat alone at the Greenhouse. One easy solution is to eat lunch often at the River Houses--a simple and necessary way to keep up relationships with those outside the Quad sphere...
...having said all this, let me also be honest and admit that I am transferring out of the Quad next year. My decision was based mostly on curiosity about the River and commitments to roommates, not any severe unhappiness about the Quad. I have already worried about having made a mistake, wondering how much I'll miss the people and the community I have found...
Though it's not what I wanted to hear at this point, as I transfer to the River, it certainly was a nice compliment to us Quadlings...
...some vast, cosmic Fleetwood Mac concert." Yet often his quirky comparisons go one step too far and cross over the line between the clever and the ridiculous. After Karen falls into a coma, Richard reminisces about how the remains of high school "flowed by like a wide, slow, pulsing river of cool chocolate milk." All this absurdity is tolerable, even amusing, so long as it doesn't also strive to be deep...