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...world.” The song’s chorus, unsurprisingly, features a voice spelling out the band’s name. It’s an awful impersonation of “Idiot”-era Iggy Pop with all the class of a fifth grader belching the alphabet. Even when they don’t rely on worthless gimmicks, the band’s sound—previously their saving grace—has changed, and not for the better. Whereas previous albums evoked The Stooges and The Rolling Stones, new songs like “Return...
...year-old underwear? Again, no need to answer. But how can it be that in the past eight decades we've gone from measuring by furlongs and pinches to microns and nanoseconds and gigabytes, but we're still sizing bras according to the first few letters of the alphabet? And I'm not discounting the seminal work of the Swiss anthropologist Rudolf Martin, who classified breasts into four types: flat, hemispheric, conical and goat-udder-shaped. It's just that, inexplicably, his nomenclature system failed to catch...
...perhaps the most indicative highlight of the evening was when pianist Robert D. Levin ’68 wowed the audience with a celebratory improvisation, in which he assigned specific letters of the alphabet to the keys on the piano and composed a song using only the keys that corresponded with the letters in Faust’s full name...
...Faust exclaimed. The evening’s concert in Sanders featured a performance by the Kuumba Singers as well as individual acts by alumni. Pianist Robert D. Levin ’68 wowed the audience with a celebratory improvisation, in which he assigned specific letters of the alphabet to the keys on the piano and composed a song using only the keys that corresponded with the letters in Faust’s full name. Actor John Lithgow ’67 also spoke briefly and introduced a short film called “Lessons in Leadership...
...down the milleniums. One enters the building's main entrance through two huge stucco pillars that have also been brought in from the desert, this time from the 8th century Umayyad palace al-Hayr al-Gharbi, near Palmyra. Examples of what is suspected to be the world's first alphabet, Ugarit, show evidence of agreements between ancient kings and merchants carved in clay; just a few rooms away can be seen beautiful Korans and other incredible works of medieval art in stone, ceramic and wood. Many of the displays are not labeled or are identified confusingly (and rarely in English...