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Each song has a good joke, but unfortunately many of them have only a few clever lyrics that are used ad nauseum. The song "Dead Dogs" has six words, and even fewer chords. The charm of some tunes, while ample at first, quickly wanes as the band beats a thin joke to death. The listener discovers that he can only hear the words "I'm killing all the fucking hippies" so many times. Frequently aware of this weakness, Butt Trumpet saves itself with brevity. Only two of the songs on the album are longer than three minutes--most are even...
...absence of balance and a conspicuous lack of preparedness marked the Vivaldi. Trampler could only elicit a thin, bare sound from his period instrument even in the most declamatory of the solo passages. Metamorphosen dutifully played the accompaniment--an unusually sharp and pointed one--at exceedingly low volume while Trampler edged along, often missing articulations and intonations. The tuttis, however, brought the booming force of more modern string instruments to bear against Trampler's tiny sound in an almost embarrassing contrast...
Additionally, this is Harvard's first year with a full-time coach, Katey Stone. As a full-time coach Stone will be able to concentrate on recruiting and add depth to the relatively thin Harvard roster...
...middle-aged housewife,'' Simpson wrote, ``I want to state unequivocally that I did not commit these horrible crimes.'' He added, in a book published last Friday, that he would have jumped in front of a bullet for his dead ex-wife Nicole--or a train, for that matter. The thin volume, the issue of a fat-figured deal ($1 million), is a brilliant sliver of disingenuousness called I Want to Tell You and subtitled My Response to Your Letters, Your Messages, Your Questions...
...miles outside the port of Kobe, contains many rooms the same size as those simulators. They tend to be in two-story, traditional wooden houses built in the years just after World War II. The roofs of such houses are heavy blue or brown tile. The walls are a thin lattice of light wood finished with stucco. The effect, says Laurence Kornfield, a San Francisco chief building inspector familiar with the style, is ``a lot like putting a heavy book up on top of a frame of pencils...