Word: standout
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With a mix of stories meant to elicit laughter and sympathy, the first-half of the production outshines the latter, clumsier second act. Humor takes center stage in a number of standout sketches: “My Angry Vagina” becomes a hilarious tale of the woes of being a female when in the able hands of Julia “JC” E. Cassis ’06 and Nicole M. Laws...
...viewers, especially those familiar with the recent exploits of Katey Stone’s women’s hockey teams, there were a few familiar visages among the bunch. There was Sarah Vaillancourt, a sophomore-to-be, gleeful after helping Canada—a squad which included former Crimson standout Jennifer Botterill ’02-’03—storm through the tournament for the gold medal. The Canadians topped their opponents by a whopping 46-2 margin over five games, culminating in a convincing 4-1 victory over Sweden in the final, with Botterill tallying...
...sense that the band needed a bit more rehearsal before entering the recording studio. Nonetheless, Doherty and company managed to lay down some genuinely decent tracks. The single “Fuck Forever” is great stadium rock, although it feels more Oasis than Libertines. Standout track “A’rebours” recalls the shimmery stop-and-go pop of the Zombies. “Albion,” is the album’s high point, an elegiac tribute to working-class Britain. But these can’t save “Down...
...names on the Italian roster - try Carter Trevisani - sound like they belong to players on an Ontario farm team. Then again, the Italian squad is like a Canadian farm team. "I still dream about playing in the National Hockey League," says defenseman Trevisani, 23, a former Canadian junior standout and son of an Italian immigrant. "I was a good player but I wasn't an unbelievable player. In Canada, you have to be unbelievable." Not so in countries like Italy that lack the sport's traditions. But hockey's crossover nationals are hardly anomalies in Torino, where plenty of athletes...
...songs--"Up rolled the riot van/ And sparked excitement in the boys/ But the policemen look annoyed/ Perhaps these are ones they should avoid"--and with each couplet he swings between disgust at and tolerance of the boozy, materialistic and louche world around him. On the standout A Certain Romance, Turner looks around the pub and begins, "Oh they might wear classic Reeboks/ Or knackered Converse/ Or tracky bottoms tucked in socks/ But all of that's what the point is not/ The point's that there isn't no romance around there." But by the end of the song...