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...Tolkien simultaneously, with its setting impossible to place and Newsom’s word-choice at its evocative peak. “We tramped through the poison oak / heartbroke and inchoate,” she whispers and shrieks at once, in the middle of a song that changes tone, meter, and story repeatedly, and yet remains remarkably cohesive. It may well be the prevalence of nature imagery, and its inversion, that earns this San Franciscan the tag “Appalachian,” which she shares with Will Oldham, Bill Callahan, and other members of the literary singer-songwriter...
...last coming on a three-point play. Overall Cusworth scored nine straight points for Harvard, bringing the Crimson back within one at 47-46 and killing the quicker Maine squad’s chance to run away with the game. “We wanted to set a tone for the rest of the season that nobody’s going to come into our home gym and control the tempo of the game,” Cusworth said. “We really wanted to establish homecourt dominance.”“We have to reestablish...
...back, we had a really good week in practice, and we were really ready.”Kat Kocurek, a freshman libero, missed seven matches because of an injury sustained against Penn in early October. She returned to the lineup against Cornell last weekend, setting a comfortable tone on the court for the Crimson.“Kat’s a huge plus to have,” Turley-Moloney said of Kocurek, who dug 18 balls, boosting her team-leading mark of 4.44 digs per game. “We can rely on her making great plays. She?...
...wanted to set a tone for the rest of the season that nobody’s going to come into our home gym and control the tempo of the game,” Cusworth said. “We really wanted to establish homecourt dominance...
...Even Jerusalem's gays are more subdued than Tel Aviv's. Organizer Canetti says she asked Tel Aviv's participants to tone down their sexy costumes. "We're not having floats or naked men flashing their asses," she says. "We just want to tell people, hey, we're here. We have a right to exist...