Word: shiver
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...show with “Shadow Song.” The manic joy faded away and Darnielle stood alone for the first time that night, grimacing and facing his demons head on, on their own terms. When he stepped away from the microphone to yell, it sent a shiver through the room. Still, it was hard not to smile after the show. Simply put, the Mountain Goats shimmer live and infuse their oeuvre with a vitality impossible to capture on record, and that’s enough to leave anyone happy—at least, until the home team slides...
...stirred by Jackman?s delicate power as a man both grieving and driven, spanning millennia, from the Iberian past to the astral future, to prove that love is stronger than death. I was impressed by Weisz? commitment to the role of Izzy, though it requires her mainly to shiver and sweat. And I was touched that Aronofsky, who could have kept making spiky little art films (and that would have been fine), took a chance on himself and the movie audience with a love story that is likely to alienate his old fans and confuse the mall rats...
...wall of that Baghdad police station reminded me of the pictures and notes on walls in downtown Manhattan after 9/11. The desperation and sorrow of people whose loved ones have disappeared is very familiar. The story of Waddah al-Anbari's ordeal as a kidnap victim made me shiver, cringe and wonder whether I would be able to keep my wits in a similar situation. It also got me to thinking about the untold consequences of war. Please keep telling these stories...
...friends'. He would repeat tales of indiscretions and infidelities with rogueish, non-judgmental relish. He could even rejoice in another's meanness-a quality he detested-but only if it was of such spectacular proportions that it made a good story. Raconteur is a word that normally provokes a shiver of dread, but you could listen to Len all night. I never heard him stumble over a name or punchline, even when by rights he should have been stumbling over the furniture. And every tale, bawdy or screamingly funny, showed an understanding of human nature born of self-knowledge...
...celebrate his 65th birthday, do not bust out your dusty tambourine. Skip the Zimmerman bus tour of Hibbing. Instead, play those early songs again. You'll shiver at their stark profundity - at the way words, simple chords and a stray mutt's voice could combine to form an immediate and lasting legacy of pop poetry. Dylan was destined, as the beautiful lyric to "Mr. Tambourine Man" has it, "to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free." In following that fate, he taught the rest of us to dance with...