Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opening song on the album sounds more like it belongs with Nine Inch Nails. The music is loud, the metal is ringing and the singer's voice is growling out pessimistic views with a nefarious skill. Instead of putting one of the band members in front of a microphone, the band could have sawed the trunk of a talking tree and received the same quality. The band seems to know this, though, and says in the credits that a band member did the "griping," not the singing...
Peterson's style is conservative and appealing but leaves most of the attention to fall on Eastwood and the other players. He does show skill at foreshadowing by cleverly showing Frank empty his pockets early in the movie to build a joke as well as giving a long pan of the hotel tower to build suspense for the climax. In fact, the scenes form a nice web of interlocking pieces that help the film's consistency...
Toomer recognizes that getting to the top will be difficult, a combination of luck and skill. And she worries that the music industry may not take her seriously, seeing her as just another Black girl with a soulful voice...
Manuel Varela '94, whose term as president of the campus Democrat coincided with Wilson's term as campus Republican leader, says that Wilson's popularity speaks to his political skill...
University Attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr. is one of Harvard's best lawyers. He's represented the University in a number of high-profile cases, and he's done so with immense skill and integrity, lawyers who've faced him in court...