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...look for people that have a broad-based understanding of American culture,” he said. “We feel that [Gates] is a great scholar and has an extensive background in American history...
...seasons cycle, the planet spins, and the world goes round. It blends the local with the global. “Sometimes you lose every nickel you had, but the world goes ‘round.” A luminescent orange globe is a fixture in the background, as is pianist Ben E. Green ’06, whose keyboard stands directly behind the glowing sphere. The two enjoy a mutually reinforcing relationship. The World Goes ’Round is, therefore, a successful attempt to localize all the world to the musical stage...
While such extras may verge on the excessive, having background footage and extra features is far nicer than just silly screen-saver animations, especially when DVDs have so much space for extras anyway, and when the films themselves are as fun as Hellboy. Only a few recent DVDs, including the special editions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, can, with justification, rival Hellboy’s encyclopedic treatment of the imaginaries and pools of ink that gave rise to its film version. Of course, only the devil knows what kind of tome we’ll get after...
While the clip has been out less than a week, it is already creating a buzz. “[“Shaniqua”] was ridiculous but there were some real gems in the background,” said Rita Parai ’07, a friend of contributor Moore...
...more interesting highlights of the album is the quietly interesting electronic sounds in the background of “Beautiful Beats,” which serve however only to frustrate, because it is a testament to the fact that the band is capable of making interesting music, if only they could get past their overactive sense of hipness and sadly atrophied conception of genuine innovation and feeling. At the risk of telling you what you’ve probably already heard, listen to their first album, where they actually manage to rock a bit—or if you must...