Word: roughness
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...finale, was left to his band the Mescaleros to piece together. Although the album does not match the classic songwriting he displayed with Mick Jones over twenty years ago on The Clash and London Calling, Streetcore is an enjoyable tribute to Strummer’s unforgettable career, passionate and rough around the edges...
...current state of the economy, Frashure found a good market for apartments. The hardest part for Frashure was convincing his parents. Because of the dearth of students who live off-campus, Frashure’s parents had concerns that he would not be integrated with campus life. Despite the rough beginnings of his off-campus experience, however, Frashure praises the perks of life outside the Houses. “I feel more free. I like having my own bathroom. I like the privacy,” says Frashure. Like many off-campus students, Frashure says he feels more connected...
...word while watching Monday Night Football. Its human landscape is one of stoned teenagers, bewildered immigrants, messed-up drunks and eco-fanatics. Anyone hoping for the delicate earnestness and lyrical settings of Guterson's earlier worksomething more like his best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars--is in for a rough surprise. If much of the story of the solitary "visionary," as he calls Ann, updates the classic witch trials of old and echoes the trajectory of every messiah, it could also be read as an account of what happens to those visionaries called celebrated novelists, surrounded by flunkies, groupies...
...memory may be too kind, but I feel that Orontea’s staging location—the Fogg Art Museum—gave that show a dreamy appeal that would have greatly benefited The Æthiop. One cannot help but think that this production’s rough edges might have been less apparent in a more grandiose setting...
First, though, the cast and crew: the best performance in the three-person cast was given by Andrea D. Leahy ’05 as Irene, an aging mother. Irene is on rough terms with her daughter, has recently been abandoned by her husband, and is about to lose her house to the floodwaters of an overflowing river. Leahy gave a kind of grandeur to Irene’s dignified refusal to submit to adversity...