Word: besting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will all work as a team," Richman said. "We will do our best to encourage people to get involved and hopefully get the campus excited about the elections...
...Bennett and Warren were ultimately rewarded for their troubles. "One of the best parts of this whole thing [is] having something in your hand that can represent a time in your life," says Bennett of the album. "And that's a rare thing to have, a physical thing that captures my junior year. That CD, that's it." He pauses for a moment and gets quiet, contemplating it. "Pretty special thing, and I'll always have it." Then he laughs. "I'll always have several hundred in my closet, I'm sure...
...Harvard chemistry concentrator (having left Oberlin's notoriously difficult double-degree program, where she studied biochemistry and music performance, before her junior year), Castelli feels free to follow her passions. "My parents don't really care what I do in life. Whatever I do, they say just do the best you can at it. Whether it's chemistry, whether it's music, whether it's being a street musician, it's up to me. That's allowed me the freedom to be able to come to Harvard and study academics...
...emphasised snare drum or hand clap sound on the two and four beats, and in its repetition of catchy sing-along shout-along phrases. In recent years, the filtered French disco house sound of groups such as Daft Punk has been the dominant trend. Perhaps the best house record of 1999 has been Basement Jaxx's Remedy album, which goes back to the roots of house and still manages to achieve a fresh, futuristic sound...
...Four genres is hardly scratching the surface of the genre jungle, and indeed we will explore other genres in future columns. The best way, of course, to familiarise yourself with musical genres is to listen to any of the representative albums, although DJs and dance music acts often cross genres themselves. Plus, genre names change on either side of the Atlantic, which makes it even more confusing. But remember, dance music sprouts genres because beats and tempos change, so they're useful because they describe something, but they're not a code. We'll surely see new forms...