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...Your average power-pop singer would give it one at most. Far from being lush or orchestral, Game Theory's sound is always crisp (there's barely any reverb or delay on this entire CD, and when there is, it's a special effect). No matter how thin you slice the songs--down to a single bass riff, or a single chord progression--almost every unit you come up with is not only something new, but something hummable. More of life gets into this music than could ever get into a simpler pop form...
...Alone," Merrill had written in the early poem "Hourglass," "one can but toy with imagery": maybe the thin narrative here, of Kimon and Seldon and Claude and mother and father and Robert and others, is Merrill's effort at a kind of writing more social, and more transparent, than the elaborated imagery of even his clearest verse. The new clarity of Merrill's prose, unfortunately, often sounds like this: "Yet I couldn't help noticing, alone with Freddy at his visit's end, how much more freely my tongue wagged and my mind worked than they did with Claude...
Establishment Au Bon Pain Bruegger's. C'est Bon David's The Greenhouse Cafe Physical Appearance The Ugly Duckling of cookies. Dark, dry, crusty, cracked, and hard. A baker's beauty. A very a attractive cookie--large, thick, and soft--with lots of healthy-sized chips. Nothing special. Thin, hard, few chips visible. "Wild topography." Chunky, muddy, soft like butter. The classic look. Dark chocolate chips in a small, round, firm cookie. Smell The cookie's scent is something of a turn-off. When in the Pain, go for eau de Sweet Cheese croissant instead. Nonexistent, really. Perfect...
Zimlicki said although the square is a regional arts and dance hub as well as a major government and commercial center, it lacks a sense of cohesive identity because it is shaped as a long, thin strip...
...year. His wards are filled with the pathetic detritus of conflict and famine, and the staff -- all of two doctors -- is overwhelmed. Ten children a day are succumbing to malnutrition and disease; for lack of beds, the dying lie on unscrubbed floors. Parents feed toddlers watery porridge. A skeleton-thin infant with bulging eyes silently gasps for milk from her mother's wilted breast...