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On the upside: 1) Former guitarist John Frusciante returns to give the band a hint of their former jammy-jammin' glory; and 2) Rolling Stone is wildly positive (four stars), if completely alone in its enthusiasm--"They've written a whole album's worth of tunes that tickle the ear, romance the booty, swell the heart, moisten the tear ducts and dilate the third eye" (Greg Tate).
"When he was late and his mother stood waiting in the doorway, she always seemed to swell, filling the doorframe, to obstruct and delay him, so that she could bulk against his approaching face and scold him.
"In fact, if a meteor crashed into the Earth, sentencing everyone on the planet to a slow and hideous death, I'd expect Wal-Mart to do swell," he did not add.
Though snobs and the stuffier sorts of pedagogues are toffee-nosed about regional dialects, poets such as Ted Hughes have acclaimed the organic way they have of fitting the syllables/To the long swell of the land.
With the retired population projected to swell after 2010, investment in new capital is an important way to raise the productivity of the slowly growing labor force.