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Mike Brenner’s spiraling, squealing lap steel lines are entrancing; the sheer volume of emotion that he can coax from a simple wooden plank with six strings, a raised bridge, and a steel tone bar is amazing. Most importantly, he also found the perfect timbres to complement Molina’s voice...
...last two weeks the sheer volume of bluster and bravado swirling around the federal courts has been dizzying. In the attempt to drum up public support for some less-than-moderate judicial nominees, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist R-Tenn. intoned “The filibuster was once used to protect racial bias, and now it is being used against people of faith...
...Shady Business” achieves the anything-for-a-laugh lunacy that sends a production skipping merrily over credibility gaps. The appearance of a refugee from “The Oresteia” at the end is a delightful non-sequitur that gets laughs for its sheer randomness, as does the argument that breaks out over who is the main character. In fact, Wan portrays Wanda with a similar flair, acting in an affected way that bears very little relation to any sort of reality, but is over-the-top enough to steal any scene she?...
After a lengthy wait, this longer, juicier edition of H Bomb will be delivered to every campus door. But in the end, the success of the magazine won’t depend on its sheer size, but rather its sustainability...
...hassle any translators working for the gathered journalists. Ruzicka climbed up on an old concrete flower box and, shouting above the commotion, told the family's story and demanded compensation from Congress. She had no microphone and the crowd was being broken up even as she spoke. But through sheer force of personality she pulled it off and the story ran in the following day's papers. "I'd rarely met someone who could combine such strident activism with canny politics-all at the age of 24, when I first met her," says TIME's Vivienne Walt...