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Tackles Mike Frey and Brian Lapham will remain in position tomorrow, but center Will Johnson shifts to left guard to fill Kawczenki’s void. John Bechdol slides in to fill Smith??s shoes, while Johnson’s backup Frank Fernandez joins the first team to round out the front five...
...posthumous release, and as most listeners will find (and as many reviewers already have), the temptation is strong to retrospectively read From a Basement on the Hill as a suicide note (suicide or not). Similarly, the fact that From a Basement was largely unfinished at the time of Smith??s death almost exactly one year ago will prompt many to carp and bicker over which bits are Elliott’s and which are the work of the debatably appropriate finishing team of Smith??s ex-girlfriend and ex-producer. Like...
...Smith??s discography’s slow movement towards over-production (or perhaps, brilliantly, production) which reached its peak with Figure 8 has been tempered here, and the results are sparkling. Songs like the opening “Coast to Coast” and “Don’t Go Down” are built on spines of distorted guitars and compressed, reverb-drenched drums and resonate with the album’s recurring sense of space and expansion, which, though in stark contrast to the linen-closet intimacy of his earlier releases, still make...
When TV cameras, radio reporters and hundreds of confused activists stampeded Jeff Smith??s campaign office, where I had been working for the past two months, I wasn’t in the best condition to understand what was going on. The facts, as I understood them, went as follows: 1) For two months, I had been working for Jeff Smith, a 30-year-old adjunct professor from Washington University who was running for Gephardt’s old Congressional seat against Russ Carnahan, who has the biggest name in Missouri politics; 2) We had no local endorsements...
...Jeff didn’t get a single union endorsement. The local paper, which has a monopoly on political coverage, endorsed another candidate. So did the African-American paper. Jeff had almost no support among the city’s powerful elected officials. For most St. Louis politicians, Jeff Smith??s victory is totally inexplicable...