Word: roughness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...show’s singing narrator—and Lee Harvey Oswald. Last Friday’s production may have come off without any major hitch, but there was a nagging feeling that the sparks didn’t fly, that it never reached out to rough up the prevailing mood of Hope and Change. Some directorial risk-taking would have helped.Still, the main thing about “Assassins” is the assassins, and this cast has some seriously talented standouts. The best, by a lot, is Alison H. Rich ’09. She played Samuel Byck...
...Penn's band was just chanting DMX's "Rough Riders." That's just embarrassing...
...Tracy Austin Broke My Heart," an extended review of Austin's Beyond Center Court: My Story collected in Wallace's Consider the Lobster.) And they have a funny mirrors-within-mirrors, mise-en-abyme effect: they pull back the smooth glossy surface of familiar images and show us the rough, grainy verso. Despite being outside the boundaries of anything remotely resembling literary quality, Moore's book delivers on both counts...
...would think that as sellers of small pleasures, Coke and Pepsi would be poised to ride out this rough economy on similar waves. But Coke has turned in strong earnings lately while Pepsi has lagged. The divergence in performance stems less from an evolution of American tastes than from a gradual parting of strategic paths. The cola twins differ more and more in their nonbubbly portfolios...
...movie that isn't in the comic book, and Zack wanted me to visualize it and draw it as if it were in the comic, and I did, and I got John Higgins to color it. So it' s like lost Watchmen pages! When we saw the rough screening of it in August this year they were almost begging me, the producers: please tell us if there's anything wrong, if there's anything you don't like, please, even if you think we've already filmed it, we can still change...