Word: bandness
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...Finally, the administration has done little to influence students to attend games. Whether it be forcing the band to choose between hockey and basketball, leaving it idle on nights when there is a basketball game but no hockey game, or whether it be the failure to promote its biggest events or even directly communicate to students that tickets would be necessary to gain entrance into Lavietes for Penn-Princeton weekend, the Harvard basketball program makes little attempt to sell itself to the students and cultivate a fan base...
...Incited by a handful of internet demos—and a rabid fan base—the ever-hyperbolic British music press set out to anoint them as the new kings of music. And while the excitable NME magazine finds a new best-band-of-all-time whenever its interns connect to the iTunes music store, for once, they’re pretty close to right...
Arctic Monkeys don’t bring anything especially new to the crowded garage-band potluck, but they’ve done a good job of sampling from the genre’s different tastes. Their guitars rattle and scream like those of the Hives, Turner occasionally shout-sings à la Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke, and many of the pseudo-poppy melodies sound like a super-charged version of the Kaiser Chiefs...
...regulation, according to the scoreboard as we walked in. Now this is a very important live sports lesson: only visit the restrooms between innings, halves, periods, or sets. You might miss something. Such was my fate as I found bladder relief before my seat; from the sound of the band striking up the fight song as I stood stationed at the urinal I knew the Crimson had potted a go-ahead goal. Something told me, though, that that wouldn’t be the end of it. My karma couldn’t be that bad, spectator sports satisfaction couldn?...
...deal calling for additional proposals for greater background checks of managers and workers, as well as beefed-up security at the terminals if the deal is allowed to go through. That might be one way to salvage this operation. But it may already be too late for that band-aid, no matter how reasonable...