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...He favours long songs that spiral around like shaggy dog stories....
...“High as the clouds/When we named them our mountains/My eyes squint to see them/To trace their ridge lines”, she sings at the middle of that opening track....
...After that the broad outlines of the album’s songs were in place, though months elapsed before restrictions eased and the three musicians could enter Nashville’s Sound Emporium studio to record....
...I open a door to find someone playing folk songs on an upright piano, next to a symbolic replica of Columba’s coracle....
...She squints approvingly at the guest list, declares the group perfectly dissonant and begins rearranging the furniture....
...Carwyn squints at the slab and places his chisel. With a gentle tap of a hammer, a wafer thin panel peels away from the rock, like a page falling from a book....
...Lance pulls off his headphones, gets out his little magnifier, squints, and replies: “Ring-pull. 1980s.”...
...I set them to work and squint at their books from a safe distance. GDP is Gross Demand Production, writes a student who used to know this sort of thing....
...Squint and you may just make out the filmmakers, closing the final bedroom door and tiptoeing downstairs with their fingers crossed. Ssssh. ★★★☆☆ In UK cinemas from November 22...
...It was set to Frank Sinatra singing the title song. The outpouring it provoked, he says, dwarfed that of most of his features. Two aspects of Lee made it possible....
...When I squint they become little stick men and women, striding out....
...But then many film-makers would argue that movies should be consumed differently from music: a song is a song wherever you play it, whereas films were built for the big screen....
...It leaves a sour taste, though thankfully everyone else gets in after the first song to receive the recently reformed Oregon-based band’s songs of political and spiritual liberation up close....
...For Chicago interior designer Kara Mann, the pair painted two chests in gold then scrawled song lyrics across them in black....
...She says there is a tendency today to look back at a perceived golden age with a nostalgic squint....
...When he is nervous he tends to squint, and his speech can have a sort of canned tone, as if memorised for a school examination. But then came the grand finale....
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