Word: swelled
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...speaks to the band’s keen sense of texture and musical climax. The skillful interplay between Pope’s guitar, Molly Schinct’s electronically tweaked cello and Vandervolgen’s synth work is breathtaking. “The L Train Is A Swell Train And I Don’t Want To Hear You Indies Complain,” the twelve-minute genre-jumping epic that has garnered the most hype, exploits Schinct’s cello to pleasant effect at its conclusion. “Hair Dude, You’re Stepping...
...Mina Pell: A goal for Pell, all is swell...
...that's only the beginning. Some 10 million Americans are triple taxed, and that group's ranks swell by 1 million a year. When retirees begin to collect Social Security benefits, the income tax is again imposed on up to 85% of their benefits for those whose overall income exceeds a fixed level. For a husband and wife, it's $32,000 a year. For a single person...
...brass was frantic that Elvis' first session produced only "Heartbreak Hotel," a slow 12-bar blues. But he knew that - with a verse requiring some robust tenor work, a chorus in the "lonely" baritone register and a cool segue allowing for sexy filigree work - the song would be a swell showcase. He also knew its melodrama and eroticism in the song, because he'd been there when he performed...
...rant against New York: "F___ you and this city and everyone in it!" He spreads his venom ecumenically--to the Pakistani cab drivers and the black schoolyard studs and the Soprano wannabes in Bensonhurst, and to the Irish-American boyos of whom Monty is one. It's a swell swill of gutter poetry--written by novelist-screenwriter David Benioff and vigorously illustrated in a tabloid-surrealist style by director Spike Lee--that touches on everything New Yorkers, and Americans, love to hate about the big city...