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...Smith’s intended suicide: “Oh the mould has been cast / The radio’s in the bath / Yeah yeah yeah.” The song soars up into an ethereal, polyphonic Latin chorale reciting Smith’s sad tale before the guitars roar and begin a heavy-metal-lite reprise. The song returns to basic rhythm guitar and drums as J. Smith returns to earth and, despite his best efforts, continues to live.Perhaps no track best delivers the overriding pessimism of “Ode to J. Smith?...
...roar of the Lions was reduced to a kitten’s purr Saturday, as No. 19 Harvard (7-1, 4-1 Ivy) pounded Columbia (1-7, 1-4), 42-28, in front of 12,437 fans at Harvard Stadium.Senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti led a relentless aerial attack on the Lions secondary, throwing for a career-high 376 yards and four touchdowns.He spread the yardage around generously, completing seven passes to sophomore Levi Richards for 103 yards and two touchdowns and six to junior Matt Luft for 110 yards and a score. It was the first time in 33 years...
...intellectual, neophyte and old believer. When the man that they were all waiting for, that had brought them together under those timbers that night, took the stage—burly, black shirt, slightly stooped with guitars in both hands—that hum of anticipation burst into a roar. Without a word, he sat down at his stool in the spotlight, adjusted the microphone towards his instrument, and began to play.There are few living guitarists who could consider themselves equal to Leo Kottke. Over the last four decades, he has established himself as an innovator, not only of the acoustic...
...creation, with unpredictable harmonies and a rumbling tension foreshadowing the takeoff to come. The percussion creaked, supporting the piece from underneath and generating a sense of the machine that was flecked with eerie harmonics deftly executed by the violins. After the sound of the assembly grew to a roar, the orchestra launched. The strings propelled the machine with driving triplets, and the entire ensemble shifted and swelled together as if impelled by an unrelenting force. The violins’ harmonics returned like a metallic wind, and the cellos and brass played a majestic theme with soaring eloquence. The united orchestra...
When she first stepped onto the national stage—beyond just questioning the efficacy (or rather, existence) of his plans—Sarah Palin tried to call Barack Obama out for manufacturing his image. “When the roar of the crowd fades away…when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot—what exactly is our opponent’s plan?” she asked in her speech at the Republican National Convention. This line was a calculated attempt to puncture Obama?...