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Hemenway ‘a hit’
With Fla. regents

By Brian Bennett
Senior Staff Writer

Robert Hemenway‘s interview
for the Florida State University
presidency was “clearly a hit," a
spokesman for the Florida State
University System board of regents
said yesterday.

llemenway, UK's chancellor for
the Lexington Campus, is one of
ﬁve ﬁnalists for the FSU post. All
ti ve candidates held hourlong inter-

views Monday with the state re-
gents, who oversee all of Honda's
10 public universities.

“(llemenway's interview) went
brilliantly," said Paul Riordan. pub-
lic information director of the Horn
da State University System. “This is
the 10th search I‘ve seen. and only
one other candidate has been as
good as him. He’s certainly one of
the strongest candidates we‘ve ever
had anywhere."

llemenway ﬁelded questions
about his views of l"SU's campus.

Students enjoying
football’s upswing

By Doc Purcell
Staff Writer

The UK football team has wal<
lowed near the cellar of Southeast-
ern Conference football for as long
as many University students care to
remember.

This year though. after nearly a
decade of hapless play, the Cats ﬁ-
nally have given the student body
something to cheer about. earning
an invitation to the Peach 80w] in
Atlanta on New Years‘ Eve.

In an area where basketball re-
cruiting rivals football as the fans‘
second-favorite autumn sport most
UK students are embracing a Wild-
cat program that they believe is on
the rise, given the bowl selection.

“1 think it gives them a big boost.
It gives them national coverage ,

Maybe we cart get some more top
recruits." physical education fresh-
man Scott Maze said of the benefits
the Wildcats will reap from their
appearance in post-season play.

Maze's predictions of national
exposure and gaining the attention
of top prep prospects across the
country are perhaps the most glar~
ing advantages of bowl play. as nu—
merous other UK students con-
curred with his opinions.

Still. it is the excitement that has
surrounded the UK team this year
that makes a bowl bid so special.

No longer will the Cats be des-
tined to sit at home for the holidays
and watch their basketball counter-
parts earn national acclaim.

“People seem to be talking more
about football this year than they

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United Way surpasses overall goal

University employees, students listed
as 3rd-highest campaign contributors

Staff report

United Way of the Bluegrass ofﬁ-
cials announced last night that the
organization has broken its 1993-94
campaign goal. with UK employees
and students ranking third on the
list of this year‘s contributors.

UK, donating $426,000 from stu-
dents and employees. ﬁnished be-
hind Toyota Motor Manufacturing
USA, inc. and chmark lntemation-
al. lnc.

United Way ofﬁcials said the or-
ganization has raised 55.980000 to
date. surpassing the campaign goal
by $80,000.

The top 25 donors to the United
Way of the Bluegrass contributed

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$3.4 million (57 percent) of that to-
tal.

UK President Charles Wething-
ton, who served as general carn-
paign chairman. said the goal was
set at $5,900,000 because that is
what was needed ”to meet the basic
needs of the community.“

Wethington announced the grand
total with help from children who
attend the Salvation Army and
Growing Together Preschools.

The students carried signs on
stage to show the grand total.

Wethington said the campaign to-
tal “establishes an upward trend in
giving."

The top 25 contributors to the
campaign were recognized last

By Rob Thorne
Staff Writer

The Student Government Associ-
ation will try to bring a conserva-

' tive speaker to campus next semes-

ter. Speakers Bureau chairwoman
Shellie Freeland announced yester-
day.

At an open forum. Freeland
asked the 16 students in attendmoe
for suggestions about possible
speakers and annormced the three
SGA has already been considering.

Rush Limbaugh. the popular ra—
dio and television personality. US.
Congressman and former Secretary
of Housing and Urban Develop
ment Jack Kemp and author Phyllis
Schlat'ly, who was partially respon—
sible for the defeat of the Equal

night during the awards ceremony
at the Otis A. Singletary Center for
the Arts.

The 27 members of this year's
campaign cabinet also were present-
ed with awards for their participa-
tion.

After the ﬁnal total was an-
nounced. the UK Pep Band and the
UK cheerleaders joined Wethington
and the children on stage to lead the
crowd in cheers of “Go United
Way."

The 85-member UK chorus
opened the presentation with a ren-
dition of “America, the Beautiful.“

Winston Faircloth, president of
United Way of the Bluegrass. said a
series of town meetings in the com-
munity and at local businesses will
be set up in the next year to help
people learn more about the United
Way and its services.

Rights Amendment. were the three
choices Freeland said she is look-
ing into now.

Freeland said the SGA budget
and the availability of the speaker
probably will be the deciding fac-
tors in choosing among the three.
but she noted that student and stu-
dent organization interest will be
important

“('The) speaker (who) speaks on
a variety issues and will appeal to a
wide variety of people will be the
one we choose." Freeland said.

Representatives from Alpha Ep-
silon Delta. a medical fraternity.
suggested bringing (‘.. Everett
Coop. a surgeon general during the
Reagan administration.

One student suggested syndicat-
ed columnist George Will. and Joe

JAMES CﬁsP/Kemol Staff

UK President Charles Wethington. general manager of the
United Way fund drive, speaks at yesterday’s campaign finale.

SGA seeks conservative speaker

Limbaugh, Kemp, Schlaﬂy named
as possible picks for spring lecture

Braun. the SGA presidential press
secretary. suggested inviting any
former member of the judiciary.

Freeland said she would look
into those suggestions only if Lim-
baugh. Kemp and Schlaﬂy were
unavailable or out of SGA‘s price
range.

Business junior Lincoln Farish
complained during the forum that
the bureau has waited too long to
try to ﬁnd a good. conservative
speaker.

“Most of the really good conser-
vative speakers book engagements
six to nine months in advance."
Fan'sh said.

But Freeland said she thought it
was still “deﬁnitely possible” to
get a quality speaker.

last night‘s forum originally was
scheduled for two weeks ago but
was cancelled twice because of
time conflicts.

SGA President Lance Dowdy
conceded that it may be getting
late.

“We should have done it earlier.
but due to continutty problems
from semester to semester, we
don‘t know about budget con-
straints." he said.

Farish said he believed that was
an excuse for not getting a quality
conservative speaker.

He said he has only seen one
conservative speaker since coming
to UK and said that track record is
“inherently unfair to the students of
UK.“

Braun agreed: “SGA hasn't
brought anyone conservative in a
kmg time."

Freeland said she had no control
over that because she took over the
position in July but said she wanted
to start a policy of bringing in one
conservative and one liberal speak-
er each year.

Freeland said SGA would make
its ﬁnal announcement of who will
be speaking sometime before the
end of this semester.

what changes he would make and
personal infonnation.

“It wasn‘t so much the particular
words said or answers given as it
was the chemistry between him and
the board," Riordan said.

Riordan said two other candi-
dates impressed the regents: Talbot
l)’Alembene. a former president of
the American Bar Association now
serving as a professor in the FSl'
College of Law; and Roben (ilid-

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Newsmakers
glad for end

to hardships

Associated Press

in a nation that usually cel-
ebrates its bounty, some
Americans are grateful this
Thanksgiving for the things
they almost lost.

Michael Durant almost lost
his life. Keith Meinhold al-
most lost his career: Antoine
Miller almost lost his free-
dom.

CLARKSVILLE. Tenn. ——
Michael Durant sat strftly in
an easy chair beside his ﬁre-
place. holding his year-old
son and contemplating things
he took for granted before his
Army helicopter was shot
down in Somalia

For ll days last month. Du-

rant. 32. was held in a small.
dirty room lll Mogadishu and
endured the blinding pain of a
leg bone and back vertebra
shattered when his Black
Hawk helicopter crashed on
Oct. 3. A mob beat him and
paraded him betore Jubilant
anti-American crowds.

ln captivity. he said it be—
came clear what meant the
most to him: his wrfe. Lorne.
27. and their toddler. Joey.

“I thought of three things I
wanted to experience just one
more time in my life. One of
them was the smell of Lor-
rie's hair." he said.

There were others. A kiss
from his son. The smell of
newly mown grass.

"Later on. I thought about
how nice it would be to have
Christmas at hotne again with
the family." he said,

All of these things were re-
turned to him. So many rela-
tives and friends are coming
to visit on Thanksgiving Day
that the (‘larlcsville church the
Durants attend will lend them
its fellowship ball.

And he will get his wish to
be home for Christmas. too.
His hometown. Berlin. Nil.
will mark his return with a pa-
tade.

PAID ALTO. (‘alitl ~—
Keith Meinhold says he is
thankful for two things _-, one
of them expected. ortc of them
surprising.

First. there's his “tamily.” a
group of some two doren gay
and lesbian friends and their
straight relatives who gather
each year at this time.

Then. there's the Navy —
the same branch of the service
that tried to eject him when be
disclosed his homosexuality
on national television. A fed-
eral judge later ordered birn
returned to work. though the
case is being appealed.

The Navy. Meinhold said.
gave him the means to get out
of the small Florida town
where he grew up. and pro-
vided a future and a career.

“1 really do love the Navy,"

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Eighth-ranked
Wildcats head
to SEC tourney

Stove McSorloy
Assistant Sports Editor

'Ihe eighth-ranked UK volleyball
team wiU be eating Thanksgiving
dinner on the road this year as it
travels to Birmingham. Ala. this
weekend for the Southeastern Con-
ference Volleyball Tournament.

“I feel like we are the favorites
in this tournament." coach Fran
Ralston-Flory said. “If I am Hori-
da. I don‘t want to play Kentucky.“

The Wildcats (28-2) are seeded
third in the tournament behind the
Florida Gators. who won the SEC
regular season title. and Georgia
who finished in a tie for second but
won the second spot on the basis of
a better won-loss record.

UK will open tournament play in
Boutwell Auditorium against the
sixth-seeded Auburn Tigers on Fri-
day afternoon at 2 pm.

“Auburn really has come on late
in the season. They beat LSU in
three games last week," Ralston-
Flory said

“When we played them at their
place. we did not play very well.
They played us very close. We won
in three. but really did not have
control of the match. This is every-
body's shot to get into the NCAA.

They are going to play hard."

The Wildcats in are likely to face

Georgia in the semiﬁnal on Satur~
day morning. The two teams split
their regular season matches, each
winning on its home court.

“I expect Georgia to be very
tight, These guys are wom out,"
Ralston-Hory said.

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It‘s not easy being green.

Second-ranked UK leamed that
and several other lessons last night
as an older, more experienced Aus-
tralia National Team sent the Cats
down under 94-85.

"We just got schooled by a much
better basketball team," said UK
coach Rick Pitino. "We‘re a very
young and inexperienced team."

The Aussies. whose starting ﬁve
averaged 25 years of age, put their
wisdom to work by repeatedly
breaking UK's press for easy lay-
ups and getting to the foul line 56
times. The Cats, meanwhile, shot
only 40 percent from the floor and
committed 19 tumovers.

Still, the young Cats almost up-
staged their elders.

Australia led by l7 with eight
minutes to play. The Cats then an-
swered by tightening the defense
and using a 15-1 run to make it 80-
77.

But UK would get no closer as it
missed key layups and open three-
pointers while allowing Australia to
go to the free-throw line.

“We started to make a run. but
then we made the same dumb mis-
takes we were making earlier,"
Cats' forward Jared Prickett said.

Despite the loss, Pitino was exu-
berant after the game.

"I loved this game, the coach
said. “All the guys played hard.
We‘re a green basketball team, but
we hustle like heck."

Pitino said his players should
learn valuable lessons from the ﬁrst

JAMES CRISPKornel Std!
'lHODE HOME: UK's Rodrick
Rhodes dunks against Austra-
lia last night at Rupp Arena.

loss at Rupp Arena since January
1992. The most important lesson
would be good shot selection.

UK shot just 6 of 30 from three-
point range for the game. Pitino
said he thought his players rushed
their shots when they cut the lead
to three with three minutes to play.

“I don‘t know if we took bad
shots.“ point guard Travis Ford
said. “I think we just got a little
carried away."

last night‘s game also continued
the learning process of sophomore
Rodrick Rhodes. who came out

blazing iii the first half. but ﬁaled
in the second. He ﬁnished with 16
points and seven assists, but also
committed seven tumovers on the
night.

“He played like Magic Johnson,"
Pitino said. “Then he got kind of
caught up in it. He‘s halfway
there."

UK looked like it was there in
the ﬁrst half. The Cats led by as
much as nine in the opening stanza
after a Rhodes slam and 21 Walter
McCarty layup.

But then the Aussies, led by
guards Scott Ninnis and Shane
Heal, began to pick apart the UK
press .and nail shots from the out-
back.

Ninnis and Heal combined for 23
points over the hall’s last six min-
utes. The Cats. meanwhile, missed
10 of 13 three-pointers as Australia
took a 50-38 lead into halftime.

Former Seton Hall star Andrew
Gaze led Australia with 22 points.
17 in the second half. Ford and
Rodney Dent had 17 each for UK.

Australia improved to 5-1 on its
exhibition tour. Its lone loss came
Monday against Virginia 76-75.

UK opens the season Saturday
against No. 7 Louisville. Are the
Cats ready?

“We'll see Saturday." Pitino said.

Note:

McCarty scored two points in 11
minutes in his Rupp Arena debut.
The sophomore sat out last season
for academic reasons and missed
the exhibition against Athletes in
Action for an NCAA rules viola-
tion.

Seniors leave on a sweet note

Stove McSorley

Kernel Columnist

After their ﬁnal home match of
the regular season against Tennes-
see on Saturday night. UK volley-
ball seniors Jane Belanger, Ann
Hall and Eunice Thomas decided
they wanted to give their families
and fans one more memory.

But, instead of doing that for
which they are known best —— su-
perlative passing. digging and spik-
ing of the volleyball — they hud—
dled around a microphone and sang
the national anthem. A memory
that those who heard them sing
might not soon forget.

The memories on the court that
the three have given to UK volley-
ball over the past ﬁve years will
not be forgotten anytime soon ei—
ther. Setter Jane Belanger will f'm-
ish her career second on the all-
time assist list. ()utside hitter Ann
Hall will leave UK as the all—time
dig leader, and middle blocker Eu—
nice Thomas will ﬁnish her career
high on UK's attack percentage list.

Belanger. Hall and Thomas play
different positions on the court.
come from different backgrounds
and have different personalities.
But this rare heart and desire that
they share has united them through
their careers to preserve the high
standard of play that has been UK
volleyball over the years.

Of the three. Thomas has had it
the hardest. A natural leader with

very close ties to her family. she
has been forced to overcome many
things in her young life.

Raised by her grandmother in in-
ner-city Chicago, Thomas had a
hard time making the transition
from her all-black neighborhood to
the predominantly white Lexington.

She almost returned home after
her freshman year because of racial
problems that she was experiencing
at UK. Thomas fought the problem
that faced her and stayed.

At times misunderstood, Thom-
as' personality can give the impres-
sion to those that do not know her
that she is only concemed for her-
self. but she is not. She can be very
outspoken. but only to emphasize a
point she feels is important.

Belanger. on the other hand,
came from an athletic family. Her
father was a two-sport star in col-
lege. and two of her three sisters at-
tended college on athletic scholar-
ships.

Like Thomas, she is a quiet per-
son. Belanger always seems to
make the right decision. She gets to
balls that most setters can‘t and sets
her teammates with accuracy.

It is not surprising that she was
ranked iii the top 10 in the nation
for her position the past two years.

Belanger is the ideal team player.
always trying to do what is best for
the team and not for herself. Her
goals are mostly team goals: win-
ning the SEC toumamcnt. making
it to the Final Four anti winning a
national title.

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pear to be quiet and focused most
of the time, Ann Hall is the exact
always smiling, laugh-
ing and enjoying herself. She does
not let anything stop her.

Hall. a ﬁfth-year senior. is the all
time dig leader at UK with 1,294.
Redshirted last season because of a
knee injury. she has come back in
1993 to help lead the Cats.

A severe injury is something that
many athletes have a problem re-
covering from mentally. Not Hall.
as former head coach Kathy De-
Boer and teammate Betsie Al-
dridge found out.

Now an associate athletic direc-
tor at UK, DeBoer had visited sev-
eral players after surgery over the
years, and told Aldridge to expect
Hall to be depressed.

But. before they walked into her
hospital room. they heard her
laughing with her mother. DeBoer
ﬁrst thought the surgery had not
taken place, but it had. Hall’s per-
sonality didn't change.

Listed at 5-foot-6 in the media
guide, she is one of the smallest
front-row outside hitters in Divi-
sion I.

Overall. these three players are
in a class by themselves.

Each. in her own way. has been a
role model for future athletes at
UK. Both on the court and in the
classroom, excellence is the best
adjective used to describe them.

The music that they made on the
volleyball court throughout their
careers was as beautiful as the way
they sang the national anthem on
Saturday night.

Assistant Sports Editor Steve
McSorley is a journalism senior
and a Kentucky Kernel columnist.

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“Rejoice in the Lord.”

—Pulm 33:1

UK-U of L:
A rivalry like
like no other

Eric Mosolgo
Kernel Columnist

UK-Louisvillc:
three days and counting.

The clock is ticking for Sat-
urday afternoon's renewal of
the college basketball rivalry
that has no rival.

When the Cats and Cards
take the court each year for
their annual skirmish, at cm-
sade-type urgency sweeps the
through the air. Expect no less
as the national cameras of
CBS zbom in on Rupp Arena
this weekend.

As rivalries go, this one
ranks right with the classics.
The Hatﬁelds and McCoys.
Batman and the Joker. The
Roadrunner and the Coyote.

None of these have any-
thing on UK-U of L.

To fully comprehend this ri~
valry based on hate, one must
reﬂect on a time more than a
decade ago when UK-U of L
games were no more than a
ﬁgment of the imagination.

In those days, UK coach Joe
B. Hall thwarted all attempts
by U of L to initiate a series
between the two schools.

After losing NCAA ﬁrst-
round games in 1981 and
1982, however. Hall’s popu-
larity was at an all-time low in
Wildcat Country. The fastest
selling items in Lexington fol-
lowing UK's inexplicable loss
to Middle Tennessee in 1982
were bumper stickers reading
“Joe Be Gone."

Basketball fans in the Blue-
grass got their Dream Game
in the following season's
NCAA tournament. as the
Cats and Cards both advanced
to the Mideast Region ﬁnals
in Knoxville, Tenn.

Immediately, the quiet Ten-
nessee city at the foot of the
Smoky Mountains trans-
formed into a bastion of hype.
With a trip to the Final Four
and a state’s pride as the re-
ward, stakes were high in this
ODG (Original Dream Game).

As the massive flock of
Kentuckians wandered the
Tennessee campus in search
of tickets on gameday. local
snipers outside of Knox-
ville's Stokely Athletic Center
must have thought they were
in the middle of a dream se-
quence. Prime seats reportedly
sold for as much as 3400.

As CBS opened its broad-
cast, UK reserve Bret Bearup
proclaimed “This isn't a
game. This is war."

When the game ﬁnally be-
gan, the two teams proved that
the hype was justiﬁed. This
English language we speak
lacks the adequate superla-
tives necessary to describe the
pulsating drama that emanated
from this epic confrontation.

In the end. the Cards won.
but nobody lost This game
provided Kentuckians with
images that don‘t fade.

Since the game in Knox-
ville. UK has dominated the
Cards, winning 8 of the 11
meetings in the series.

Like the prelude to the 1986
UK-U of L clash, when then-
Wildcat coach Eddie Sutton
said the Cardinal program was
“like the little brother fighting
for recognition from the big
brother" when compared to
UK.

Every bit the prophet. Sut-
ton sat on the bench at Free-
dom Hall and watched his
Cats maul the Cards 85-51. So
much for getting along.

What will be the final result
of this week‘s meatrics? Make
itUK9l,UofL 83.

Stqﬂ Writer Eric Mosolgo is
a civil engineering graduate
student and a Kentucky Ker-
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Thanksgiving meal
needs reformation

' Alan Aja
Contributing Columnist

Ah, yes! The smell of the turkey
roasting in the oven, the steam ris-
ing from the sweet potatoes. the
scent of pumpkin pie and the cheap
frills you get when you actually
think your parents are going to
share their champagne with you.

(‘an you wait for those mo-
ments? I can.

The only thing Thanksgiving
ever does for me is give me a ma-
jor Maalox moment. As for what it
does for others. I seem to notice
them somewhere between five and
20 pounds heavier when they re-
turn after the holiday.

And the funny thing is, winter
break hasn't even come yet; you
know, it's like a never-ending fast—
feast buffet, with Thanksgiving
acting as a small pep-talk.

But wait a minute. Doesn't the
same old menu for Thanksgiving
ever get old?

Am I the only one here who
would prefer Big Macs over turkey
and stufﬁng, chili over sweet pota—
toes, Miracle Whip over gravy, and
a whole week off from school rath-
er than two days?

(‘ome on, fellow college stu-
dents. isn't it time we made a ma-
jor change over a so-called “tradi-
tion"?

Find the place in history that
said the Pilgrims and the American
Indians shared Stove-Top stuffing.

Here's another stumper. Did

they really eat a turkey? 'Ihe illus~
tranns in history books I grew up
with showed something like a
cross between a rooster and a pea-
cock.

If you remember those, too, can
I get an “Amen"?

Then the winter holidays come
around. and your mother smiles
and says, "We ran out of turkey."
You sigh in relief, but then she
grins and says, “But we bought a
new one for the holidays, it‘s even
bigger.“

You can't take it anymore. You
head back to UK for the next se-
mester and guess what‘s on special
at UK food services? You guessed
it — turkey sandwiches.

So what should we do about this
form of torture? I have two sugges—
tions: become vegetarians or go
home for Thanksgiving. eat the
meal. return to UK and don't go
home until you think the turkey is
nothing but a skeleton.

And as for changing the grand
old tradition of the typical turkey
and gravy Thanksgiving meal. I
change my mind. There‘s no way
to change. Americans are too ig—
norant to realize that they‘re suffer-
ing.

I did think that us college folk
could start a small revolt by spend-
ing Thanksgian at McDonald's.
But then it hit me; they were

sucked in by tradition, too. McDo-
nald's won't be open that day.

Alan Aja is a journalism fresh-
man and a Kentucky Kernel con-
tributing columnist.

JJJJ

The Afghan Whigs
Gentlemen
Elektra Records

By Brian Manley
Assistant Arts Editor

Continuing in the same tradition
they have set on previous albums,
The Afghan Wigs have belted out
another CD that resembles a study
in the grittier sides of life and rela-
tionships.

Not a cliche-ridden, three-minute
pop band, the Whigs have taken a
wisely executed trip through what
seems to be, at times, a sunless side
of rock.

Formed when guitarist Rick
McCollum met vocalist Greg Dulli
after both had been arrested at a
party and thrown in the same cell,
the band was rounded out with
drummer Steve Earle and bassist
John Curley.

Based in Cincinnati, the group

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soon released its self-ﬁnanced de-
but Big Top Halloween in 1987. It
has since released three albums on
Sub Pop, making Gentlemen the
group‘s long-awaited major label
debut.

I)ulli‘s lyrics comprise one of
the highlights of Gentlemen, flow-
ing as a stream of consciousness
rather than the overused rhyming
couplets to which most lyricists
confine themselves. It looks like he
just sat down and wrote what he
felt, not what verse would match
what chorus.

Maybe that’s what gives Gentle—
men such an honest sound. The
band isn‘t out to beg for radio play
(something it's receiving regard-
less). It has put a realistic show—
case of true ideas in song onto this
disc and has avoided the trap of
writing what everyone else thinks

will sound good

In what could loosely be dubbed
a “ballad," “When We Two Part-
ed" creeps at a snail's pace, but
isn't a gush‘laden love tune. Dulli
stirs a haunting melody line built
on a rhythm of dissonance and lyri-
cal pain.

Sounding exactly like early Soul
Asylum (yes. the group has albums
other than Grave Dancers Union),
Dulli jumps from the harmonic to
the harsh in a very effective way
on the track “What Jail Is Like."

The song exemplifies the type of
lyrical writing in which Dulli en-
gages, describing what it is like be-
ing trapped in a unsatisfying relzr
tionship.

This tone overcasts the entire al-
bum, carefully melding the joys
and despairs of human relation-
ships into bittersweet melodies

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on some tracks. Dulli‘s voice
sometimes slips into a tone similar
to Widespread Panic's John Bell.
Dulli can lead the band with his
unpredictability, running through a
series of emotions within one song.

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