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...said Mark C. Webster, a former Law School employee currently working at the Divinity School who crashed the party last year. “It’s pretty opulent by Harvard standards.”Nor is the party at the Harvard Business School a shabby affair. Last year’s shindig featured holiday decor anchored by a reindeer ice sculpture, according to Elizabeth Sweeny, a faculty assistant at the Business School.“I remember thinking initially, that’s like a pretty plastic thing, and oh, wait, no, actually, that’s made...
...home, no decision is made by yourself—it’s a family affair,” she says, adding that the family elders wanted her to attend Harvard so “[my mother] could keep...
...Budapest, where Anatoly faces Freddie once again and Florence revisits her scarring childhood. There are “gasp” moments. Anatoly’s wife Svetlana (Victoria J. Benjamin ’12) decides not to wait idly in Russia while her husband embarks on an affair and instead pays a visit to the couple. Florence’s missing father vacillates between supposedly being alive and being presumed dead faster than you can say, “World Communist Conspiracy.” At one point, it is even implied that he may actually work...
...coming from a serious or earnest place. Songs can offer a meaningful perspective on getting older (LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends”) and still have a backbeat. Artists need not be self-consciously serious to be serious. DFA artist Hercules and Love Affair, one of the forerunners of this new set of innovators, is another exemplar of this new, layered dance music. Their eponymously titled debut album has met with both critical and limited commercial acclaim. It is clear then that people are more comfortable with the intersection of divergent styles than ever...
...Democracy,” their first album of original songs in 17 years, is thoroughly forgettable, neither worth the wait nor the $13 million-plus Axl Rose and company spent on its production. The whole thing is overproduced, every song a too-many-cooks-in-the-kitchen kind of affair. Much has been made about the decline of rock at the hands of Pro Tools, but a monkey could have mixed this album better with GarageBand. Throughout “Chinese Democracy,” Guns N’ Roses imitate every conceivable style of rock, sounding more like...