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...mellow-sweet classical pop of Bacharach and Rundgren. Folds blends everything from the country-western atheistic lament "Mess" to the lovely, disaffected suite of "Hospital Song," "Army," "Your Redneck Past" and "Regrets." The subdued and heartfelt "Jane" transforms him into a breathy late-night lounge singer. Lit by utter honesty and padded with flugelhorns and violins, the album is conceived in sepia nostalgia and weary lucidity. There is an adult awareness beneath the band's play. This is the proof...
...other narrative devices (dance in West Side Story and gaudy cinematography in Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet), Hoffman's production miraculously retains both the language and the humor of the original version. Case in point, Calista Flockhart is surprisingly effective, delivering lightweight slams like "spite... oh hell!" with utter conviction. Less a comedy of language than a physical comedy of errors, film makes it possible to keep all the characters straight. Though bad high school productions usually turn the play into a mass of unfunny confusion, the cast's flawless gene pool make everyone memorable enough that we actually...
Nonetheless, at the time I put aside the video and returned to work on my thesis or procrastinate in less interesting ways. But last week, in a moment of utter boredom (they become more frequent toward the end of Senior Spring), I walked over to my bookshelf, grabbed the video and went downstairs to the common room. In part, however, I wasn't just bored. I wanted to watch this video while still here at college, where there are people around to discuss issues like abortion and where it seems especially useful to think about and debate these big questions...
Nonetheless, at the time I put aside the video and returned to work on my thesis or procrastinate in less interesting ways. But last week, in a moment of utter boredom (they become more frequent toward the end of Senior Spring), I walked over to my bookshelf, grabbed the video and went downstairs to the common room. In part, however, I wasn't just bored. I wanted to watch this video while still here at college, where there are people around to discuss issues like abortion and where it seems especially useful to think about and debate these big questions...
...computer via an electroencephalogram, the researchers taught two ALS sufferers to mentally signal the computer to pick out letters on a screen, spelling out messages. The process is agonizingly slow--the average pace is about two characters a minute--but it should eventually improve. And compared with utter silence, it must seem blistering...