Word: smashingly
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...friends, to nu-metal. Once, long ago, metal bands staggered into your town to loot and pillage. Then something weird happened, and suddenly a whole bunch of geeks simultaneously discovered the powers of shredding guitars. Now we have groups like Alien Ant Farm, who neither scream their words nor smash their instruments, though they’re not above “spanking” their guitars to get a giggle from the fans. AAF greet their audience with an amiable, if calculated, “everybody have a-gud-day today?” and later concedes...
...stick. But then one night . . . “I heard this rustling noise, so I was a little wary,” says LaFlamme. He and Myers proceeded to enter his room and search out the critter. The noise came from behind a French dictionary, so LaFlamme proceeded to smash the book into the back of the bookcase. No luck. “Then we thought it was in the heater, so we kicked it. And nothing happened. So then we decided to smoke it out using some clove cigarettes. The fumigation was a resounding failure,” LaFlamme...
More importantly, Morris is on pace to smash most of Harvard’s receiving records. With 48 catches in six games so far, he is on pace to break the single-season record of 60, which he set last season. And with 132 career receptions, Morris ought to break the record of 146 held by Terrence Patterson ’00 in the next week or two. By the end of his career, if not this season, he will also hold the records for total receiving yards...
...product of Folds’ slow evolution was evident at Lupo’s. He didn’t climb on top of his baby Steinway, nor did he smash the keys with his piano stool. He didn’t play with his toes or dance around stage and didn’t even have a bottle of beer next to him throughout the show. Instead he played his music with passion and intensity, joked with the crowd, and left people feeling as though he had somehow been performing for them...
...sing. It’s a testament to Branch’s musical poise that she doesn’t get lost in the over-zealous mix. That said, the pairing of rolling acoustic guitar with a stuttering drum machine on the opening of the radio-smash “Everywhere” melds with surprisingly fluidity...