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...performance concluded with a burnt-out “Adrienne.” This time, drums were a little louder, riffs rougher, and vocals fiercer, projected from both the stomach and throat. The sound was less appetizing perhaps, but the performance was unquestionably dedicated. Each song was modestly counterbalanced with a sincere, soft-voiced “Thank you.” After all, for all the glory and fame of appearances on Jay Leno and mentions in Rolling Stone, these are still unjaded, warm-hearted guys who have had a little more success at what they love doing...

Author: By Sonya M. Lai, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A "Calling" In Paradise | 3/22/2002 | See Source »

...performance concluded with a burnt-out “Adrienne.” This time, drums were a little louder, riffs rougher, and vocals fiercer, projected from both the stomach and throat. The sound was less appetizing perhaps, but the performance was unquestionably dedicated. Each song was modestly counterbalanced with a sincere, soft-voiced “Thank you.” After all, for all the glory and fame of appearances on Jay Leno and mentions in Rolling Stone, these are still unjaded, warm-hearted guys who have had a little more success at what they love doing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO HEADLINE | 3/22/2002 | See Source »

...distinctly bourgeois bit of India. But if Woody Allen can reduce New York to the Upper West Side, who's to complain? "There are millions of people like us," says Nair. "This is not a rare breed." And it's not as if Nair has ignored life's rougher edges. Her early cinéma vérité work was all about outsiders, from Indian immigrants in America to strippers in Bombay, and her Oscar-nominated first feature, 1988's Salaam Bombay!, had a city street orphan for its hero. Nair enjoyed an art-house hit in 1992 with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Local Is The New Global | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

According to Heller, the effective collaboration between Knowles and Summers is not likely to stop the President from selecting “someone rougher around the edges—imaginative, bold, more like Summers himself...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No Clear Successor for Charismatic Dean | 2/12/2002 | See Source »

...sciences? These controversies get coverage in the text, but not on the cover. Instead it’s implied that things are quite rosy today, but that the book might provide a good chuckle with its history of our “foresisters who had it way rougher than [us] back when ‘Cliffie bitch’ was a common term and Radcliffe was ‘the Annex...

Author: By Lauren E. Baer, | Title: Judge the Book by Its Cover | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

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