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...Same reason I’m there, except with my buddies I like to defend Drew Housman as a viable four-year point guard while these kids like to organize some sweet brass and wind arrangements. And I, for one, don’t need a trombone in the background to get excited about a go-ahead goal or a key second-half defensive stop...
...Manchester-based predecessors. When everything comes together, as on standout tracks like “Munich” and “Fingers in the Factories,” Editors successfully combine lead singer Tom Smith’s distant voice with energetic guitars chattering across a stark, echoing background. In “Munich,” the album’s stellar lead single, fast-paced guitars skitter up and down while Smith’s deep voice implores, “people are fragile things you should know by now, be careful what you put them through...
...time Willem Dafoe, playing a cop, reminds you of a J. Crew model that’s been run through a trash compactor. 5. Every time Dafoe mocks someone by assuming a false accent. 6. Every time Dafoe does his police work with loud, melodramatic classical music in the background. 7. Every time Dafoe sends the incompetent Boston-PD detective for coffee. 8. OK, we can’t name ‘em all so just take a shot whenever Dafoe does something annoying. 9. When you see the Harvard motto written on one of the brothers?...
...Most of my characters are people who have a background in a place that’s small and they’re in a situation now that is often much more than they can handle,” he says...
...rights of fathers have always been the background noise of the abortion debate. Beginning with Planned Parenthood v. Danforth in 1976, then in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992, state efforts to require that fathers be notified before women have abortions were struck down by the Supreme Court as placing too great a burden on women. A majority of Americans approve of spousal notification, provided there are exceptions for women in abusive situations, and when he was an appeals court judge Sam Alito upheld such a provision. But the Supreme Court ruled in Casey that "it cannot be claimed that...