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...tale of rival widows battling over a mutually owned apple tree, it combines the authentic flavor of Basque culture with a tale of loneliness and the human drive to keep on living. Trevanian’s hallmark, however, is his approach to humor. MacDonald capitalized on this with an earnest narrative style and understatement of irony which evoked great laughs from the house...
...ground war in Afghanistan, when it begins in earnest, won't look like the one in Iraq or Kuwait. Rather than massed troops along front lines, U.S. forces will need to spot small agile targets, stage lightning-quick strikes and then get out quickly...
...Find Our Feet,” a cheery upbeat number with echoes of mop-haired Beatles in its trumpet-lead optimism. Mess as a whole is often as polite and nearly as self-effacing as its title: It is sometimes a little hard to imagine the earnest, woeful voice that sings, “If I ever look up to find you on my doorstep / I’d die,” funking out and shaking his thang as he did with Chucklehead (maybe if he sang, “you’ll die?...
...fact that the Strokes behave like washed up rock stars despite being at their creative apex leads to a debut album that is energetic, damn catchy and innovative within its paradigm. Casablancas howls about sex, drugs and rock ’n roll in earnest, backed by a motley crew of influences ranging from 50s jangle pop to British Invasion rock to New Wave. The songs, save some masterful use of modulation showcased in tracks like “Soma,” are simplistic—no fancy drumming, straightforward guitar chords in a verse-chorus-verse matrix. Still...
...Israelis employed at the World Trade Center, and that many Jews died along with Muslims and Christians. But this incendiary piece of misinformation has been circulated in the mosques and Urdu newspapers for days, steeling the local resolve to defend bin Laden as Islam's hero. One earnest youth tells me that when he joins the jihad against America, he'll rim his eyes with kohl so that the maidens in martyr's paradise will find him more handsome. This nutty zealousness rattles me; I start telling people in the bazaar that I'm a Spanish national...