Word: terrain
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...worshipped by many of the fans who detested it so much after a first listen. People don’t like it when their favorite bands develop and move in different directions, particularly when they evolve from classic pop songs to deeper and more troubling terrain. It takes time to appreciate why a band would want to do something different and surprise those that fell in love with them in the first place.Los Campesinos! have taken on this challenge, trying to develop their original sound without losing their core fan base. Their new LP, “We Are Beautiful...
...don’t buy this figure of the depressed and suffering poet,” Lewis says. “Poetry teaches you strategies to deal with depression. I think poets get this reputation for being depressed because they spend more time in tough terrain, not because they’re more delicate.”But Lewis believes that poetry also has a meaning beyond the individual poet; it resonates physically within an individual and politically within a society.“If we don’t have language that’s robust and honest...
...less graceful moments as a seasoned runner, Erin K. Sprague ’05 stumbled up a kilometer-long glacier with a 17 percent incline. The mud-laden, rock-strewn, and icy terrain of Antarctica was most unforgiving...
...There is something in me that wanted to make narrative paintings, which of course abstract does not offer.” Hannah cites the narratives of novelist Graham Greene as particular sources of inspiration for his paintings. “[Greene] creates an emotional and psychological terrain that is recognizable no matter where his books are set,” Hannah says. “I set out to do something similar, to create a world that can encompass many variables, but is still one hermetically sealed world.” Many of Hannah’s pieces carry...
...DiBenigno, 42, is right about the solidifying of the Cuban vote, then trends in the middle of the state, especially along the all-important I-4 Corridor, and the north, where regions like the northwest Panhandle are very reliable GOP terrain, would indeed bode well for McCain in Florida. "Our chances look very good right now," says DiBenigno, who has come under criticism among Republicans the past couple months for McCain's slip in the Florida polls, but whose counsel and on-the-ground knowledge, say backers, has too often been ignored by the McCain campaign's national bosses...