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...skillfully draws emotions from the audience. The play is punctuated by emotional moments, such as the scene in which Biff exposes Willy's suicidal tendencies. He hits the rubber pipe on the table which Willy has been planning to use to kill himself. Build, BUILD, BUILD! and then SLAM! the rubber tubing is whipped out, banged on the table and a huge silence descends, a moment Engel creates so that the audience's sympathy also has time to build...
Recipe for Hate rocks. It's just thatsimple. Recipe is a slam-dance soundtrackwell stocked with memorable hooks and defiantlyrics. At its best, the album is comparable toAgainst the Grain or No Control. Andwhile it is blighted by some real duds--theFugazi-inspired "All Good Soldiers" comes tomind--Recipe is chock full of terrifictunes. "Don't Pray on Me" is a lilting wail aboutthe L.A. Riots which manages to work in mentionsof Daryl Gates, South Vietnam, Moses and MarilynMonroe. "Skyscraper," a crowd favorite at lastmonth's show at Avalon, is a straight ahead rockerwhich colonized the ear with its soaring...
Just over five minutes later, Farrell collected and slam-dunked a rebound of senior Chris Baird's point shot to put the Crimson...
...some time now, American science has been falling out of favor -- with talented young people who spurn it, press commentators who slam it and congressional budget makers who squeeze it. But if the Nobel Prizes are any indication, the U.S. research community still has plenty of past glory to celebrate. In a typical near-sweep, six of eight winners in science and economics are American citizens, and one of the others got the prize for work done...
...rest of the game, it looked like the A's would dominate. Dave Stewart pitched well for Oakland, and in the second inning, Canseco lined a grand slam home run that left a dent in NBC's centerfield camera...