Word: wallower
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...rejection letters from law schools, and I was trying to call my parents all day to let them know,” said Sarah M. Mercer ’04, another Adams House resident. “I was pretty upset by the letters so I had to wallow in my own pity until I could get a hold of them. But after a phone call on a landline with my mom and a trip to Ben and Jerry’s I was fine...
...predecessor. At times MTA2’s spiteful rhymes and often tuneless tunes uncomfortably evoke thoughts of slavery—functional, slow and relentless like dirges, with scarred chants serving as choruses. There’s little time for bling-bling hedonism; at best Banner and clique wallow in their grim depravity with a smirk. Crunk ballads (!) such as “My Lord” are overshadowed by workhorse tracks like “Crank It Up” and the “Like A Pimp” remix. If the first Mississippi: The Album was cathartic...
...apex, “Great Ghosts,” a guitar lullaby about exile, return and surrender that should be the Microphone’s swan song. Typically, tentatively, Elvrum howls: “As you can see / having descended the hill / I still look like me / I still wallow like Phil, and forever will.” The luminous ghosts of the Microphones past are haunting Elvrum and us, but in this live setting they’re lost in translation...
Rather than sulk and wallow in defeat, the loss to the Bears became a rallying cry for the remainder of the season...
Bush can no longer bench his opponents and gag dissent, but Democrats have been slow to wake from their post-Sept. 11 hibernation. They continue to wallow in Bostonian fatalism, even though they have stumbled into an unprecedented opportunity. A New York Times poll released Friday reported that Bush’s manipulation machine has lost its mojo, and that if elections were held today, the eventual Democratic candidate would finish neck-and-neck with Bush...