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Those are the best nights, where playing through a two-hour game seems effortless and momentary. Other games bring smaller crowds or fans with less energy; sometimes the team starts off a little sluggish. Even at these times, we pour all of our energy and ourselves into cheers and our playing, hoping to rouse the spirits of those around...
...brings along his excellent backing band, the Cardinals, and a shrewd instinct for songs that keep Willie focused. The two originals and nine covers--including Gram Parsons' $1000 Wedding and Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah--are so good that Nelson resists the temptation to oversell them and returns to the effortless speak-singing that made his greatest hits so poignant. Best of all is a closing minor-key version of Amazing Grace; Nelson and Adams add an Animals-like organ to this most clichéd of spirituals and take it on a trip to the House of the Rising...
...acoustic guitar and now and then some rocking accordion. (Yes, accordions can rock.) She even experiments with reggaeton on Primer Día but makes it her own by adding Spanish guitar. The title track recalls a Yellow Submarine--era Beatles--as digested by Mexico. But it's the effortless singing and light tropical beat on Sin Documentos that catch Venegas at her swayworthy best...
...next-but he'd rather have called someone in off the street than drink a great bottle by himself. He was generous too with his time and advice; many fine careers in food and wine were launched with his support. And he maintained his countless friendships with seemingly effortless kindnesses. Something-a book, a trinket he'd found rummaging in an antique shop-would catch his magpie eye and remind him of someone; days later it would arrive with a letter in his bold flowing hand. He would spend hours covered in clay and oxide dust making ceramic tiles, assembling...
...said, pointing to the characters on the menu that I couldn’t read but whose contents I had puzzled out from the Spanish translation. “Muy bien,” the waitress said. “You know Chinese?”My first effortless trilingual conversation, in three sentences.By all means, come to Buenos Aires. When Harvard’s intersession rolls around, it’ll be gorgeous here in the southern cone of South America. After all, this city breathes what Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar immortalized in print. Such...