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...young and cool, McCain said, but his ideas are "old" and "tired." It was a strong attack, but watching him deliver a set speech with a clenched grin to a partisan crowd may have made voters miss the McCain who made them feel like part of some feisty rebel band, not deckhands on the Death Star. "This was not a speechmaking contest," McCain adviser Alex Castellanos noted on CNN. "Thank...
Thanks to the band's ubiquity and decency about rock stardom, Coldplay has nudged its way into a place alongside U2 and Radiohead in the holy trinity of bands that affluent adults consider good, good-hearted and worth breaking the bank to see in concert. But a small cult devoted to hating Coldplay has also arisen--which wouldn't be worth mentioning except that most of its members are music critics and their fury has a Lou Dobbs--on--immigration edge to it. To mark the release of 2005's X&Y, the New York Times' Jon Pareles declared, "Coldplay...
...past the obscenities, and the criticism amounts to this: lead singer Chris Martin is a cornball solipsist, the melodies all have the same mass-produced "character" as a Pottery Barn table, and Coldplay's albums sound like crib-safe versions of Radiohead--a band that, while commercially less successful, is infinitely more hip and worthy of adulation. Film critics have waged their own version of this argument with moviegoers about the relative merits of Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese, resulting, as you've no doubt heard, in the complete commercial failure of all Spielberg movies. But if scathing reviews haven...
...best friend as bridesmaids, while Hetrick’s female best friend will be the best (wo)man. The Rev. James Savage, who supported the groom-to-be during his confirmation, will celebrate the Mass. The tuba and clarinet players, who met through their involvement with the Harvard University Band, began dating after a year of friendship. Before embarking on a relationship, they talked about their goals in life and realized the many similarities. He proposed on the Weeks Footbridge a little more than three years after they met. After their Cambridge wedding, the pair will live together in Pennsylvania...
Harvard University Band, Harvard Glee Club, and Radcliffe Choral Society Concert, at 8. Free and open to the public. Tercentenary Theatre...