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...Year category, as teenage country crooner LeAnn Rimes did hers for Best New Artist. But one name stood out from all the others. Or rather, kind of leaned against the wall, looking cooler than everyone else in the vicinity in a throwback to James Dean. That name was Beck Hansen, the folk/hip-hop/punk rocker who was nominated in three categories, including Album of the Year...
...Beck (he uses only his first name professionally) were a sports team, sportswriters would say he's having a heck of a postseason. His album Odelay has sold only about 750,000 copies; in contrast, Celine Dion's Falling into You, another Album of the Year nominee, has sold more than 7 million. But in a year when overall record sales were flat and creativity seemed flatter, Beck has become a critics' darling, deservedly so, and has garnered an impressive number of end-of the-year accolades. Rolling Stone's music-savvy readers voted Odelay the Album of the Year...
...person he cuts a rather unremarkable figure. He has shaggy Neil Young-like sideburns that seem to have missed the memo that the '70s are over; his eyes are big and wide, giving his face a look of almost perpetual astonishment and naivete. Although he's just 26, Beck's voice has an old-soul weariness. His lyrics can be, at first listen, silly and playful, but they carry an underlying seriousness. His 1993 hit single, Loser, managed to be simultaneously humorous and a bit tragic with its self-deprecating, self-destructive refrain, "I'm a loser baby...
...scientists provide plenty of comic relief. In addition to Anna and Kriebel, the group includes Emil Machal (Nathan Edwards '97) a surveyor who counts the stripes on Huml's wall and uses a number of strange contraptions to perform his duty. The project manager is Mr. Beck (Ian Simmons '98), who does little else but nervously march across the stage and exclaim "tomorrow I'm going fishing and that's that!" These non-sequiturs provide a nervous, inexplicable humor, but they seem to suggest more serious issues which elude this production...
Harvard came out blazing in the first half. With just over eighteen minutes remaining in the first half, its prized weapon, Collins, scored on a penalty corner from junior back Beck Springer...