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...hyper-mixed tracks and nonsensical lyrics. Because each of these songs lacks a strong beat to hold on to, they have the counterintuitive effect of bleeding together into one incoherent, continuous mess. Unlike with the Killer’s previous album, “Sam’s Town,” Flowers did not make the mistake of calling “Day & Age” “one of the best albums of the past 20 years,” but the record, despite its missteps, is quite good. The Killers have tried to mark...
Walt Kowalski is, to put it gently, an old crank, given to growling and spitting like a distempered stray. He's a mass of gruff prejudices against the minorities who've moved into his Michigan town. When some kids brawl in front of his house, he brandishes a rifle and actually shouts, "Get off my lawn!" In any other movie, he'd be the sour comic relief or the monster's first victim. But since, in Gran Torino, he's played by Clint Eastwood, Walt is a stalwart man of the Midwest--the hero who has a score to settle...
...irrigation to the basin's farmers, and they produced just 18,000 metric tons of rice, the lowest yield since 1927. "No one around here has ever seen conditions like this," says rice grower Les Gordon, standing on the cracked ground of his 4,000-acre farm near the town of Barham...
When we were doing The Andy Griffith Show in the '60s, Andy used to say, "There's no town that looks and sounds like Mayberry; this is the Mayberry of my childhood in the '40s." I think there is comfort in looking back and reminding yourself that other people were on journeys before us with ups and downs and made it through...
Over the next few weeks, Smith also plans to conduct a town hall meeting for junior faculty. He wrote in the letter that reviews for promotion within the tenure-track system would continue as scheduled...