At some level, we are asked to encounter S. as a type, as a constellation of symptoms (or, in the novel's predictable but nonetheless lovely close, a prescription for recovery).
With its wordless group chanting, "Let Me Be Him" shows the band continue to break new ground and provides a lovely close to the set; earlier, the expansive cosmic house of "Flutes" unfolded at a leisurely pace and majestically built layers of warm synths.
"The Route" by Chen Chieh-jen of Taiwan features lovely close-ups of the faces of elderly longshoremen in a video work about labor strikes.
"Verses for a Fordham Commencement" is a delight to read, all the way to its lovely closing lines.
"The Games will be fine, and there'll be a lovely opening ceremony, and there'll be a lovely closing ceremony," a theater director told me at a cafe in Holborn when I asked her about the Olympics.
The plangent wooze of lap steel isn't wrong either, adding a note of ghostly succour to the lovely closing track, Tamiditine.
It is, of course, a sympathetic voice, especially when joshing the passive aggression of wig-wearers ("you lot are going to have to collude in the illusion that I've still got a barnet") or, in a lovely closing routine, negotiating the social difficulty of encountering the same vague acquaintance three times on one shopping trip.
The Brooklyn indie band Lucius uses sweet vocals and slashing guitar to salvage "When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky," an apocalyptic blast from the overproduced "Empire Burlesque," and Dawn Landes and Bonnie "Prince" Billy duet, Gillian Welch-and-David Rawlings-style, on "Dark Eyes," the lovely closing ballad from that record.
"It landed lovely, closed the show".
He's the Naked Chef, only he's not -- he's got an endless supply of horrific sport shirts -- and it's all "mate this" and "mate that" and "Oh, my, isn't that a lovely turnip?" Close.
However, she said that the cathedral staff became like a family to her son, and that "it was such a lovely, safe, close feeling for him".
