Word: backups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a backup battery as big as a dorm room that should be good...
Harvard doesn't have a true backup point guard, so Monti, the Crimson's only confident ball-handler, had her hands full...
Superstar's choreography (by James Carmichael '01) is a mixed bag. Though it is occasionally interesting and almost always active, repetition (such as the repeated use of numerous backup dancers waving their arms rhythmically behind a solo singer) tends to weaken it. In addition to its ability to entertain, dance in musical theater should be a form of expression on par with acting and music. Carmichael frequently neglects this. In this piece, much of the dancing is generic, as if it were derived from a little-known early 1980's workout video called "Sweatin' to the Messiah...
...Soft Shoulder," a somber song of lost love. In another abrupt yet effective change-up, the bouncy "Swing" may have you grooving to the bass, sax and scratchy vocals. DiFranco receives some stellar support from guest artists Maceo Parker (playing sax and flute on several tracks) and the Artist (backup crooning on "Providence"), both of whom add distinct flavors to DiFranco's funkiest album...
...have somewhat of a shot," Nowinski says. "I don't know what I want to do, I'm going to put all my eggs in the go-play-professional-football basket and not give myself a backup and use that as motivation, or I'll be homeless...