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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interplay between the hard rock emphasis of STP's debut album, Core, and the lessons in eclectic beat formation and poppy renditions of 1994's Purple and 1996's Tiny Music from the Vatican Gift Shop. In many respects, the album seems to reflect a band that is almost too happy to be creating together again, so instead of the work indicating musical growth it becomes a stylistic retrospective...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Album Review: Pilots Fly High, Crash Land | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...treat. The song recalls favorites such as Purple's "Vasoline" and "Pretty Penny", with the framing of Weiland's somber vocals around Dean Deleo's masterful lead guitar. The album, after "Church on Tuesday," becomes the record that a well-versed STP was waiting for. "Sour Girl" is another almost-ballad, revealing the band's ability to mix pop melodies with a dark and gloomy bass line. The band is still capable of experimentation, especially on the track "No Way Out," but one wishes that STP had been riskier with distortion and electrical manipulation on No. 4. Weiland clearly...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Album Review: Pilots Fly High, Crash Land | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...assumption of a white audience doesn't necessarily preclude minority participation in theater. For Marcus Stern, a Harvard lecturer and frequent director at the American Repertory Theater, he would be "hard-pressed to believe there is almost any script that can't be casted color-blind. As soon as you start making racial lines in your work, your work becomes half of what it could be. That's true of any field...

Author: By Frankie J. Petrosino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ARTS EXPOSE: Something Rotten in the State of Harvard Theater | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...University makes its final preparations for the event, the EPA announced that the Charles "is clean enough for boating almost all the time and clean enough for swimming a great majority of the time...

Author: By Zachary R. Mider, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: EPA Calls River 'Immaculate' Before Regatta | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...been working with Gates for almost two years in making the series...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gates to Host Innovative New PBS Series on African History | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

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