Word: station
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...Counting Crows' frequent references to California. The band then broke out on stage with the title track to its latest album, Recovering the Satellites. Emphasizing substance over flashy gimmicks, the only stage decoration was an illuminated shooting star hanging on the back wall. "Angels in the Silences" and radio station favorite "Daylight Fading" quickly followed. During "Sullivan Street," lead singer Adam Duritz's repeated soul-wrenching cry, "I'm down on my knees," set a mood for the evening. He was not just performing on the stage, he really seemed to be living up there, baring his soul...
...everyman--and pits them both against the senseless juggernaut of popular culture. "This movie is about people," Gavras says, and the people who star in it are indeed its finest assets. Dustin Hoffman plays Max Brackett, a hotshot national news reporter who has been demoted to a backwater affiliate station in northern California after a mysterious incident involving celebrity anchor Kevin Hollander (Alan Alda, in a stonier version of the egomaniacal media mogul he played in Crimes and Misdemeanors). The worldly, ambitious Brackett is earger to regain his position at the network. So when he finds himself locked...
Credit must also go to Janie Fliegel, the reigning queen of Boston set-design, who constructs an apartment for the Slopers that demonstrates their wealth but also communicates how isolated and restricted Catherine is by her social station...
According to election workers, low turnout partly stems from a lack of candidate outreach to students. "It's a city election, so generally nobody cares," Gund Hall station warden Bill Willard said. "It's not necessarily apathy. But it's just that nobody gets the word...
Quincy House polling-station clerk Ed Samp suggested that although a student may choose to register in Cambridge rather than at home, that "doesn't necessarily mean that with that there is going to go an interest in local politics...