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...layers compelling riffs on top of each other, building up to a rousing chorus featuring a brilliantly restrained vocal performance from Pollard. He clearly knows how to use his voice to hook in the listener but never shows it off, deferring to the merits of the songs rather than indulging himself.Later songs like “Keep Me Down” and “UFO Love Letters” are similarly straight-ahead and thrilling. The dark melodies that hold these songs together are adorned with subtle details like whistling at the end of the latter and a scything...
...Friday’s Q & A was not all amiable storytelling. At one point, an audience member pointedly questioned Friedkin’s choice to show a Blu-Ray version of the film—which the director had personally color-dyed, frame by frame—rather than an original or dyed 35mm print.Responding to accusations of ruining the film’s integrity by showing it in Blu-Ray, Friedkin adamantly defended his support of digital technology.“This is exactly what I had in mind when I shot the picture,” Friedkin said...
...school and her approach to her next would-be position as solicitor general in President Barack Obama’s administration.‘ONE OF A MILLION’Kagan speaks fondly of her years at the Law School but acknowledges that her positive memories were the exception rather than the norm.“When I was here in the mid-80s, those weren’t the best years. That was the baseline I had for the Law School,” Kagan said in an interview last October. “I had a very fine...
...Since “Green Eggs and Hamadeus” is targeted towards families, what kind of atmosphere would you like to create for parents and their children at performances?RK: What’s important to me about all of my events is that they are human experiences rather than one of those artificially stuffy things with all these rules. It’s also really important for kids to know that a concert hall is the most fun place they could possibly go to.There are few things in our culture that parents can bring their kids to that...
...once the breadbasket of Africa into a financial basket case. Just last month, he unveiled a series of trillion-dollar notes. The Cato Institute estimates the country's hyperinflation, one of the worst in history, exceeds 89 sextillion percent, or roughly a doubling of prices every 24 hours. Rather than admit to economic mismanagement and corruption, government officials are scapegoating the stock exchange. "There have been attempts to blame 'speculators' and 'rogue traders' for a sharp depreciation in the Zimbabwe dollar and rising inflationary expectations," says Shumba...