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Educated Guesses. A few moments after Strauss had finished his statement, he got into a question & answer exchange with reporters-an exchange memorable for its substance and for its tone of understatement...
...brilliant flare of a welder's torch flickers on the rock walls. Labyrinthine cables coil along the floor, and the tunnel reverberates with a sometimes deafening din, punctuated by shouts and horn blasts. In an eerily normal scene near ground zero, a surveyor chats on a Touch-Tone wall phone. The atmosphere is that of an underground lab rather than a staging ground for Armageddon...
...another, from lush electronic soundscapes to unornamented acoustic guitar lines. With “Son,” she finds her balance: all the elements—vocal lines, guitar riffs, minimal percussion, and electronic textures—intertwine in complementary fashion. Molina sings with a beautiful, breathy tone, and her airy Spanish lyrics meld seamlessly with the soft musical underpinnings beneath. On the album’s opener, “Rio Seco,” Molina demonstrates her vocal abilities to great effect. She displays a wonderfully free sense of rhythm—sometimes drawing her vowels...
Wright relies too heavily on bluntly stated epiphanies, and his sincere lyrical tone soon becomes static. Striking images and strange insights are rare; most of the poems are predictably profound. The ending of “The Knowers” is typical: “dead leaves / come back as green / leaves: only / we / don’t return,” he writes. The smell of snow is a recurring motif in the poems, and there is a certain chilly, blandly poetic quality to the volume as a whole...
...despite the petulant tone that the Maoists are striking, some Nepalis really do believe that the rebels will give up arms and eventually enter the political mainstream by contesting elections once the country has a new constitution. Back at his store in Bhaktapur, Dinesh Hada and his friends certainly share that view. "Look here - the way you talk about Maoists, it's as if they were monsters," one of Hada's customers snaps. "Now, one of the four of us," he gestures around him, "is a Maoist. Can you guess which one?" Two of the men drinking tea begin chuckling...