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Ludacris’s “Battle of the Sexes” has an ambitious title and premise that it does not live up to. When the album remembers to be a “battle?? rather than an endless string of mildly memorable dance tunes and awkward sex songs, it presents a one-sided and misogynistic view of women affirmed by Ludacris and a host of male and female collaborators...
...claiming that women at clubs prostitute themselves by wearing provocative clothing, giving him the right to feel them up. His lyrics do capture a particular male viewpoint, but neither Shawnna nor any of the other female rappers and singers on the album answer him, and the “battle?? on the album feels distinctly one-sided...
Dancers from Brown will present original student choreography as well as pieces from Robert Battle??s “Rush Hour.” Yale’s performance will feature an original, contemporary West African piece by Lacina Coulibaly. “I’m as interested as anybody to find out about their programs and to see them dancing,” says Elizabeth Bergmann, the Dance Center director who helped to organize the event and will take part in a panel discussion...
...crisp, but it was their individualistic performance (more conversational than theatrical) that intrigued the audience.With no fanfare, as the bands would have wanted, The Crimson hereby reports that the Pears ultimately nabbed the prize that night, and they will go on to compete at the final “battle?? on April 14 at The Paradise in Boston. A publisher from Rolling Stone is slated to judge, which is, according to Crump, unprecedented. She also notes that top-notch managers from major labels will attend, though she keeps their identities secret. Harvard bands will take the stage this...
...handled subtly and without sentimentality, successfully drawing more complex portraits of the characters without sacrificing their charms.In the modern setting, the absurdity of modern academia produces plenty of comedic material, pitting Carothers’ self-serving histrionics against Benowitz’s scholarly disdain to great effect. The academic battle??between Nightingale’s reckless desire to publish his somewhat baseless conjectures about Byron and Jarvis’ pointed objections—never forsakes the intellectual high ground, but a mastery of the material allows the performance to continue on without ever seeming forced. In Carothers?...