Word: transcend
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...Never Took the Time” is unlis-tenable), but Akon’s voice, which seems intentionally dispassionate throughout the album, signals a frustration that he can’t quite put on record. He may be frustrated with his own musical limitations. He never manages to transcend them, but the album’s strength is the force of his frustration. His weakest tracks are more disappointing than infuriating. But in the center of the album, Akon stops the self-loathing for a moment to romanticize his homeland of Senegal on “Mama Africa...
...book transcend the list-like quality of other college guides because authors Josh J. Cracraft ’03 and Kimberly S. W. Holmes ’05 recently lived through this bloodsucking world of Harvard. Their absence from campus for the last few years lead to some errors in the information presented (for instance, grade point averages are no longer on a 15 point scale), but these mistakes can be found in all college guides...
...small-town origins (“committing suicide in Buffalo would be redundant”) to Emerson senior Anna Haas’ cold, over-sexed valium user.These caricatures are too endearing to be offensive, though, and they’re frequently fun. In a few instances, cast members transcend their own roles to great comic effect.Kevin Barlowski, a senior at Emerson, is one of these cast members. There is a big difference between telling a funny joke and being funny, being a source of humor rather than a conduit for it. As Richie, Barlowski’s humor came straight...
...notes of caution that have been raised about his quasi-candidacy - his youth, his lack of legislative experience, his excruciating even-handedness - still strike me as his chief selling points as a politician. His mere presence in the 2008 campaign would have the potential to elevate the political discourse, transcend America's red-blue divide and maybe even make the country a better place. The trouble is what happens the morning after. Whoever prevails in November 2008 will inherit a welter of foreign-policy challenges, courtesy of the Bush Administration, that could well dominate much of the new President...
...Company” revival, “A Chorus Line” has preserved its retro sensibility. Director Bob Avian has banked on the show’s inherent gravitas—the poignancy of the meat-market image of dancers lined up for directorial scrutiny—to transcend time and place.Closer to home, the upcoming HRDC production of “A Chorus Line” is slated to open in a week on the Agassiz stage. The theater community will judge for itself whether director Peter C. Shields Jr. ’09 can make the dancers?...