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...vocal cords (the Cure's Robert Smith and U2's Bono), but his swing from nonchalant weariness to faint glimmer of hope on this up-tempo heartbreak tune is so winning it almost sounds new. Akon Lonely Senegal-born, U.S.-raised Akon starts his tale of abandonment with typical woe. Then the chorus - a sample of Bobby Vinton's Mr. Lonely, played at Chipmunk speed - arrives, and the song turns into a joke about self-pity. A rare R&B hit with a hint of self-awareness. Goldie Lookin' Chain Self Suicide the funniest track by this intentionally moronic group...
From one poor first-year comes this tale of woe: “One of my roommate’s prefrosh caught his other prefrosh masturbating on our futon. The door wasn’t locked or anything, and he was right in the middle of the common room.” Talk about making yourself feel at home...
...also excels at recreating vibrant characters and situations out of what would be hazy memories for most other people. The narrative bounces easily from the women in the room to flashbacks illustrating their tales of woe, and back again to the present as others add critical commentary. The older generation, surprisingly, comes across as the most liberated. One "Auntie" argues persuasively for taking a married lover, explaining that, "...his bad breath, his hemorrhoid attacks, his flues," etc. are all for the wife while for the mistress, "he's always bleached and ironed, his teeth sparkle, his breath is like perfume...
...throughout Jesus' life and during the founding decades of the Christian Church. But by A.D. 70 the more flexible Hillel school had become pre-eminent and the predecessor of today's traditional Judaism. In Falk's theory, Jesus was a Pharisee of the Hillel school, so that his denunciations ("Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!") were aimed at the Shammai school, not Jews in general, and not even at all Pharisees...
Senegal-born, U.S.-raised Akon starts his tale of abandonment withtypicalwoe. Then the chorus--a sample of Bobby Vinton's Mr. Lonely, played at Chipmunk speed--arrives, and the song turns into a joke about self-pity. A rare R&B hit with a hint of self-awareness...