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...come across on songs like “Sanctify,” which centers on low, melancholic tones and predictable rock chord progressions that lead to their own extinction in your consciousness. Or perhaps it’s the sense of menace, magnified by Valle’s low whisper, that curls you into the song’s harmonic arms while the brontosaurus beat stomps forward. The tracks rotate upon revolving choruses and repeating lines (e.g. “There’s no harm / There’s no harm / There’s no harm done?...

Author: By Elsa S. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Calla - "Strength in Numbers" (Beggars Banquet) | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...shows. As several goblets of champagne had already been foisted on us, almost without our knowledge (it is apparently required that one be drunk at 10 in the morning while viewing the collections), I shouted this question rather loudly.“No!” my friend would whisper back to me, slapping me upside the head as I reached down to grab a miniature low-fat cupcake from an outlying table. “You have thought, like, about 15 people were Anna Wintour today, and one of them was a man wearing a leopard trenchcoat...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taken from the C-List: My Adventures at Fashion Week | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...example, the brick arch leading into the building can act as a conduit for sound, allowing students standing on opposite ends of the arch to whisper to one another cross the empty space...

Author: By Siodhbhra M. Parkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sever Ranks 77 on List of Top 150 Works of Architecture | 2/12/2007 | See Source »

...film set than its screen simulacrums, people are doing their best to act out that message of business as usual. An aide reels off the day's wearying list of prime-ministerial meetings and appointments, before revealing the anguish behind this glassy efficiency in a voice lowered to a whisper: "It reminds me of the end of the Clinton era. It's a witch hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tony Blair's Disappearing Act | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...dispatch center in downtown Baghdad. The ten vehicles on the lot are a mix of imports, including Nissans, Toyotas and Mercedes. If he's lucky, Mohammed will get a Peugeot. "It's the easiest to handle," says the shy, skinny young man who speaks in a raspy whisper. "And it's the fastest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hell on Wheels | 2/7/2007 | See Source »

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