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...Truth,” easily the album’s worst track, Oberst attempts to weave a forced narrative—something about heroin and Aztec gold—over a clichéd, country backing track that sounds like something from a bad karaoke machine.Between these two, unfortunate extremes??uninspired classic rock and trite country—lies the heart of the album. Oberst redeems himself with “Ahead of the Curve,” a powerful number built around a memorable acoustic guitar riff that tastefully expands into a full-band number. A more...
...have a blank check to pass any legislation they want. Historically, the final check against one-party control has been the Senate minority party’s ability to mount a filibuster. With only 40 Senate Republicans that tool is lost, leaving Democrats with no need to check their extremes??anything goes...
...understood that contrast between the two Beijings on my first visit to China. But this summer, the most beautiful places I found were neither the most attractive parts nor the grittiest ones.Instead, the sites that were most appealing to me captured both of the city’s aesthetic extremes??modern ugliness and ethereal classicism—in microcosm. In doing so, they served as solitary points of departure from which I could begin to understand Beijing as a whole.I found that kind of beauty, for instance, at Jianguomen, an ancient astronomical observatory. The rooftop collection of huge...
...recently resurfaced over the past few weeks in articles on the current economy, which has been characterized as an “economy of extremes??—in some ways the very antithesis of the “Goldilocks economy...
...past is any indication, Harvard undergraduates will almost certainly bandy about phrases like the “economy of extremes?? and the “anti-Goldilocks” economy once they descend upon Cambridge for fall exams...