They're striking, modest, rough-hewn, experimental and vaguely hobbity — most would look right at home in the Shire.
Is a new generation of Austin film artists in danger of placing too much cultural baggage on the shoulders of a modest, deliberately rough-around the-edges effort?
This one, which stars Dwayne Johnson as Jack Bruno, a Las Vegas taxi driver who becomes the unwitting protector of two towheaded aliens, is modest and diverting, rough and bland, with some good (if not quite Bette Davis caliber) actors and so-so special effects.
While displacement type Deep-V mono hulls have superior seakeeping behaviour at speed, catamarans typically have modest behaviour in rough seas.
Murray, a Scotsman from a more modest background, remains rougher around the edges even with his stylish English girlfriend, Kim Sears, and his increasingly well-burnished image.
Shelter's chief executive, Campbell Robb, said: "As the number of homeless people continues to grow, it's clear that the modest proposals on rough-sleeping in the budget are simply inadequate given the scale of this problem, and will not reach the thousands of homeless families hidden away in cramped B&Bs and dingy hostel rooms".
He has arrived at Playland via bands including the Pretenders, the The, a partnership with New Order's Bernard Sumner called Electronic, the American indie-rock collective Modest Mouse, and the rough and ready British trio the Cribs.
When S2A was coexpressed with PAR-1 (Fig. 4D), there was only a modest worsening of the rough-eye phenotype compared with transgenics overexpressing S2A tau alone (Fig. 4C); the dual S2A/PAR-1 transgenics had slightly more irregular eyes with disordered and occasional missing bristles.
The idea of the record shop as cultural hub echoes Rough Trade's modest beginnings in 1976.
H E concedes that Beacon is not a natural second-home community, given its rough edges and modest housing stock.
