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...track soon relaxes into a calm, agreeable record. An early highlight, “The End Is Near,” features a bluesy piano riff refreshing for its childlike simplicity. The guitar breakdown in follow-up track “Drive to Dallas” is one any shredder could be proud of, and its improbable fluctuations in energy showcase lead vocalist Eleanor Friedberger’s distinctive voice. At the Furnaces’ best, their songs sound like an exploration of the most basic building blocks of pop songs. It’s reverse engineering with little concern...
...love for Kierkegaard and my carefully cultivated jeu d’esprit meant less than nothing to The Man at Borders who saw the number “16” on my application and, without so much as a glance at my qualifications, tossed it in the shredder for sustainable recycling.So I set my sights lower: ever the ambitious young upstart, I accrued 30 generic applications at even more generic establishments only to have the majority swallowed up and effectively lost forever in some pile on an assistant supervisor’s desk. Occasionally I would hear back...
...Clearly, dresses from Pucci and Diane von Furstenberg aren't shredder bound. But who are their likely buyers? "Women looking for value for money," Farquhar says. "People who want something different to express their individual style, who like mixing pieces together." Women who initially come in attracted by the new fair-trade labels are buying used items, too, she says. So far, secondhand merchandise accounts for half the shop's sales. On a recent weekday morning, a range of shoppers, young and old, came in to browse or buy. Twentysomething Caroline Dunlevy, who was making her second visit since...
...ladies are doing in the Leesburg Macrame and Dialysis Society.'' The President barely knows the name of this second-string hack until a bureaucratic glitch awards Burnham a ''Q'' clearance to receive atomic secrets. Though he has no idea what to do with them, or with the accompanying paper shredder, he soon attracts the attention of Soviet spies, jealous White House insiders and, worse, the President, who makes him a trusted adviser. Benchley's story embraces the debate over invading Honduras (Ronald Reagan's earlier incursion into Nicaragua having failed) and a yachtload of American homosexuals who threaten to blow...
Obama's new rumor shredder makes it easy to find both the "lies" and the "facts" behind the "mystery tape rumor." Secondary pages note that "even some conservatives don't buy it" and list two well-read conservative bloggers who have debunked the tape tale. And in what is likely to be the most read part of the new site, the campaign cites the probable sources of the stories in a section called "Who's behind the lies?" As the Obama sleuths explain it, the "Michelle Obama Mystery Tape Rumor" appears to be a work of fiction lifted "almost word...