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...vein of medieval balladry, its anthropomorphized title characters undertaking an epic journey with lute-like accompaniment. “Sawdust & Diamonds,” on the other hand, has its watery imagery matched by Newsom’s lulling, swirling harp-play. The 17-minute “Only Skin?? invokes Pynchon and Tolkien simultaneously, with its setting impossible to place and Newsom’s word-choice at its evocative peak. “We tramped through the poison oak / heartbroke and inchoate,” she whispers and shrieks at once, in the middle...
...before reaching a depth of about one-inch in her bathroom and overflowing into the suite’s common room. When the maintenance staff returned, they began disposing of items that had come in contact with the water. “Anything that would touch your skin??shampoos, towels, mats—they were thrown out,” she said. The flood drove fellow Eliot resident Flavio S. Campos ’08 from his room to Dunster House, where he has been temporarily moved. Campos said he was not present when the flooding began...
Delicate, stiff, and with wrinkled edges, the skin??s coloring is a subdued yellow, with sporadic brown and black splotches like an old banana. The skin is not covered in hair or marked by tattoos—except for a “Harvard Law Library” branding on its spine. Nothing about it shouts “human flesh” to the untrained...
...broads? Williams then points the lyrics at himself, taking him to previously unexplored areas of introspection. In the gentle ballad “Make Me Pure,” he settles on his faults (“I got a ton of selfish genes and lazy bones beneath this skin??), and, paraphrasing St. Augustine’s fabled exhortation, he pleads to the Lord to “make me pure, but not yet.” Backed up by a strumming guitar, Williams sounds like a British Tom Petty, minus that trademark Southern twang. The power ballad...
...comfort-level, however, has not disappeared, as moccasins have been praised this season for their “second-skin?? feel, or non-feel. “You don’t have to tie them,” says Andrea Woloski ’08, “you just slip them on. You don’t have to wear socks and they’re still warm...