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...Comparatively, anyway. The three members of the emo-tinged rock band look like they were chosen for their ability to get beaten up in high school, but their songs have clear pop-hit potential because of their raw emotional quality. Singer Aaron Perrino literally fills the room with the sheer intensity of his voice - you get the feeling that a recording wouldn't do his singing justice. To ink a deal, the band will probably have to package this emotion a little more slickly, with more obvious hooks, but they're well on their...
Nancy-Beth G. Sheer '71, former chairman of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees said the Trustees had commissioned the portrait of Wilson last spring after she announced she would be stepping down as Radcliffe's president...
...might expect that a movie with Aaliyah and DMX in starring roles (yes, they "act" in it) would have a good soundtrack, even if the movie is an utterly torturous hour and a half of sheer mediocrity. After all, the movie isn't likely to have sensitive portrayals of the deepest recesses of the human soul (no Walkens or De Niros here), but you might expect something on the soundtrack along the lines of "Are You the Somebody" or "Where My Dogs...
What I dislike is the sheer proportion of our lives we have given over to advertising. Hardly a T-shirt in America exists without a logo or slogan emblazoned on it. The spaces in the T station and even in the bathrooms seem acceptable enough for advertising, but new "advances" seem to go too far. At last week's Ericsson Open (named for the cellular phone company) tennis tournament in Miami, the net was marked with a Mercedes-Benz symbol at each end. This was the first time I had seen this particular type of selling, though the behind...
...largest refugee exodus in history. Two years later he went to Chechnya when Russia made its first ham-fisted attempt to suppress the breakaway republic that it has recently bombed into submission again. He went to Bosnia and Kosovo, where words have failed over and again to convey the sheer sadism of what neighbor did to neighbor...