Word: shavings
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This bluesy wallop of an album is filled with songs about grotesques, but there's no danger of its turning into a rock-opera Winesburg, Ohio. That's because front man E (Mark Oliver Everett) chooses humor over bathos ("Ma won't shave me, Jesus can't save me," he growls on the superb Dog Faced Boy). Which is not to say he's snide; Friendly Ghost and Woman Driving, Man Sleeping are as sweet as anything in the James Taylor songbook--they're just not saccharine. The lyrics float over an array of power chords, samples, overdubs and scratches...
...past, they have normally tapered and shaved for H-Y-P,” co-captain John Persinger said. “This year, they decided to pick their Eastern team ahead of time and wait and shave for this weekend...
...We’ve had a variety of plans the last couple years,” Persinger said. “This year, we decided to wait until the conference meets for everyone to shave. Our coach didn’t pick the team until about a week out and kept everyone on their toes...
...team had made a universal decision before the weekend not to shave and instead to save that for the conference meet...
...would shave my head and walk through the streets of Harvard naked, yelling...