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...probably be Arthur Ashe. It'd be great to take Bobby Riggs' spot in the "battle of the sexes" too and let Billie Jean King beat up on me a little...
...Yale—We're not saying they beat us, but how could they not crack the top 25? This is the school that produced the Bushes, the Clintons, Kerry, etc. Also, have you ever seen "The Skulls?" Classic bad-but-good movie, plenty of douchebaggery...
...Yale—We're not saying they beat us, but how could they not crack the top 25? This is the school that produced the Bushes, the Clintons, Kerry, etc. Also, have you ever seen "The Skulls?" Classic bad-but-good movie, plenty of douchebaggery...
...elegiac tone of Sontag’s retrospective is characteristic of most modern reflections on the 60s. By now, the decade has become the locus of an intense cultural nostalgia, a yearning to recapture the youthful enthusiasm that inspired such diverse movements as Beat and Psychedelic “Happenings,” New Wave cinema, and the political dissidence that exploded in May 1968. Part of this longing has to do with the sense of a missed moment: failing to generate a coherent intellectual program, the spontaneous activism of the American Left eventually dissolved into stagflation and Vietnam...
...Going Away,” is, appropriately enough, a departure. For some bands, that might suggest an unprecedented foray into weirdness, but for the Furnaces, that means abandoning experimental tendencies for unexpected accessibility. The album opens at high energy, but the frenetic driving beat of the title track soon relaxes into a calm, agreeable record. An early highlight, “The End Is Near,” features a bluesy piano riff refreshing for its childlike simplicity. The guitar breakdown in follow-up track “Drive to Dallas” is one any shredder could be proud...