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...songs stretch too long and one sounds much like the next. In the torrent of words, there is little sense of character arc or development. The style of song is too static to convey the changing lives of the characters. It’s as if Lowdermilk wanted to express a hundred personally compelling ideas, but never paused to find the essential ones, let alone compose a memorable chorus...
...tolerated the Palestinian Authority in the name of unity, but has always "reserved the right to resist the occupation." Whenever Hamas' unyielding violence has challenged Arafat too hard, he has cracked down. He arrested hundreds of militants and removed firebrand Hamas preachers from their mosques in 1996, after a torrent of suicide bombings nearly undid the Oslo accords. When Hamas militants car-bombed a bus filled with settler schoolchildren in 1998, setting off another crisis with Israel, Arafat put Yassin under house arrest. Both times, though, Hamas' popular support was at a low ebb among Palestinians who believed peace negotiations...
...where her hubby was, rather than dealing with this level of anxiety. But this was her rag—”A - the magazine”—and she was going to beat The New Yorker to the punch. The hangover which had been a throbbing torrent had settled down to a dull ache, and Ant wished she hadn’t had that third martini last night. Was she at the club for business or pleasure?—both, really. A job offer worth millions, but she wasn’t hearing it. The club...
...then a funny thing happened. Even though reports are still mixed, it appears we've reached a plateau. Our expectations had been so lowered that companies' quarterly reports began to beat anemic forecasts. Spending by consumers didn't fall off a cliff. And the torrent of layoffs, while still flowing, slowed...
...Montreux 1982 & 1985 is a singularly surreal experience. When the legendary electric blues guitarist took the stage at the Swiss jazz festival on July 17, 1982, he was a relative unknown, receiving third billing under drummer Chris Layton and bassist Tommy Shannon. Throughout that night, Stevie Ray unleashed a torrent of blistering, fiery blues, but in a bizarre historical turn, the audience’s reaction mixed applause and jeers in equal parts. The story goes that Vaughan left the stage in tears, but his performance went down in musical lore. Jackson Browne and David Bowie bore witness...