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...many passions he brought to Cabot. “He took a lot of pleasure in simple things,” Benitez, who was traveling, wrote in an e-mailed statement. “He loved road bicycles, martial arts, and bluegrass music. You could always hear the country twang in A-entry coming from his office.” Ketelhohn is survived by his wife, Linda Abrams, and sister Erica. Livingston said he also maintained close relationships with a number of the Cabot staff and students, friendships that she credits with keeping him at the House for so long...
...middle-class family in the middle of the country in the middle of the last century," Hillary Clinton told several hundred people--a large crowd--in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the first Sunday in May. It was a lovely line, and for once her voice, a flat Midwestern twang that sometimes twinges harsh, seemed just right. The crowd, which included a disproportionate number of mothers who had brought their daughters, was very much at ease with the Senator as she managed to convey her usual A-student policy virtuosity in an informal, accessible way. "Wouldn't it be great...
Highlights are sparse. The first minute or so of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is fine. There’s a nice little mandolin-based acoustic arrangement of the tune, and it plays upon that perfect two-note guitar twang from the core of the original...
...boisterous horns, disco bass lines, and supercharged snare hits. If 2004’s “Good News for People Who Love Bad News” proved anything, it was that Brock had enough genius to turn a shambling mess into a successful pop album. The lonely twang of early Modest Mouse songs may have been traded in for a gigantic layer of schmaltz and glittery hooks, but the band’s even more fatalistic than ever. Brock has described the album as a “nautical balalaika carnival romp,” which gives some insight...
...crafted all of these jokes and trying to play them as true and possible. There are satirical elements to our show that are often overlooked or dismissed.” Naked Trucker often plays the straight man to T-Bones’s off-kilter antics and back-country twang, though Gruber says there is a lot more to T-Bones than a trailer-trash stereotype. “One word a lot of the Southern writers often used was ‘grotesque,’” Gruber said. “I don?...