Word: strengthing
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...itself. And director Christopher Guest, who with Eugene Levy co-wrote the heavily improvised script, has launched another of his wee, wry curiously compassionate comedies. It may not be quite as funny as their masterpiece, Best in Show, but it is, I think, superior in energy, characterizations and narrative strength to Waiting for Guffman and A Mighty Wind...
...case of strength vs. strength, something’s got to give when the Ivy League’s 2006 rushing leader faces a defensive line that has yet to allow a single player over 100 yards this season. McLeod is fast, strong, and determined to break a half-decade long Bulldog drought against Harvard and bring the league title back to New Haven for the first time since 1999. But if senior tackle Mike Berg has anything to say about it, the celebration won’t take place this year. He and sophomore tackle Matt Curtis patrol...
...unlis-tenable), but Akon’s voice, which seems intentionally dispassionate throughout the album, signals a frustration that he can’t quite put on record. He may be frustrated with his own musical limitations. He never manages to transcend them, but the album’s strength is the force of his frustration. His weakest tracks are more disappointing than infuriating. But in the center of the album, Akon stops the self-loathing for a moment to romanticize his homeland of Senegal on “Mama Africa.” The equally hopeful...
...community, that can polarize its members when it should unite them to reject it. But as the community expands its historical conventions to include a new tradition of speaking up when necessary to defend its places at Harvard and in America, Asian Americans are slowly but surely putting strength behind their numbers...
Wilson and Taub do an excellent job detailing the lives of the average residents of the four neighborhoods they examine. While one may have hoped for a timelier book with more cross-neighborhood, city-wide analysis, their method of zeroing in on individual residents and organizations has its strength: it makes the book more relevant to other cities, even as it misses some of what makes Chicago Chicago...