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...Supernature,” and finally to a much mellower, delicate folk-pop in 2007’s “Seventh Tree.” “Head First” is a reawakening, taking Goldfrapp’s energy level to a completely new height and giving them a dance-floor appeal that was absent from “Seventh Tree.” While the new album presents an array of lively, stylized dance hits whose catchy choruses, steady beats, and glittery synths offer instant gratification, the album as a whole is a surprisingly uninventive step...
...travelers in Prussia, “beer soup,” a mixture of beer, egg yolks, wheat and sugar; of a road-tax imposed on greased wheels; and of nights spent in post-stations, a kind of 19th-century motel where one slept in a cubicle with waist-height boards for walls. Through Mrs. Adams’ eyes, we see evidence of the Napoleonic conflict. In Eastern Prussia, she is alarmed by the thinned population, by clusters of unprotected women on the streets, and half-burned houses. Later, she passes the harrowed battlefield of Leipzig—scene...
...meet started strong for the Crimson women when freshman Sydnie Leroy captured a second-place finish in the pole vault with a height of 3.50 meters in one of the first events of the day. She was shortly followed by freshman Olivia Weeks, who claimed Harvard’s first win of the competition with a victory in the triple jump, posting a mark of 12.24 meters...
Nobody goes to Iraq-war movies. Four or five years ago, at the height of the insurgency, that was because there were no Iraq-war movies. (Vietnam, while it raged, suffered the same Hollywood blackout.) But even when some directors grew a spine and attempted to dramatize the effects of the American adventure on its soldiers (In the Valley of Elah) and civilians (Lions for Lambs) or on U.S. foreign policy (Rendition), the response was tepid. No Middle East war film has earned even $50 million at the domestic box office, and the one that came closest, The Kingdom...
...think maybe we were put back on our heels by their height and their athleticism,” Berry added. “And I think that threw us out of our game of getting the ball inside and getting easy ball movement...