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...every week, they'd be a lot like baseball fans. At least, they'd be like the ones who voted in Major League Baseball's Memorable Moments poll, the results of which were announced Wednesday night before Game 4 of the World Series at the San Francisco Giants' Pacific Bell Park...
Another kind of nature exists in “Girl With a Green Curtain,” part of a thesis research project by Susan E. Bell ’03. The wide and deliberate strokes in bold colors and the familiar subject matter—a friend taking a gulp from a blue Solo plastic cup—give the work a beautiful liveliness such that the viewer expects the girl to, at any moment, put the cup down and walk out of the painting to the next party. Perhaps the “psychological insight” that...
...unfortunate term for anything except a large bubblegum balloon, but such are the vagaries of music terminology. Luckily, Invisible Downtown’s debut The Safest Place is one of the strongest arguments for the term’s redemption. The undeniable songwriting talent of guitarists Joseph S. Bell ’03 and Michael J. Palmer ’03 is perhaps the most standout element of the album’s 11 tracks. But the writing is underscored by a musical and technical proficiency that gives the album a maturity beyond their relatively limited exposure, which has nonetheless...
...songs are artfully constructed, ranging from the introspective “My Sins” to the teasingly jazzy intro of “Before You Met Me.” Bell and Palmer’s guitar work is unaffected and terse, neither giving in to indie-style chord pounding nor dissolving into noodling solos. That said, album-opener “Green Eyes” boasts a yearning solo that might make the Edge proud. Matthew J. Kamen ’03 provides lithe basslines that mostly remain tied to the bass drum of Travis M. Beamish...
...Staff writer Martin S. Bell can be reached at msbell@fas.harvard.edu...