Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last night, the House of Blues traded its usual bluegrass and jazz fare for something a bit more synthetic. Wearing shiny plastic pants and using dubbed background singers, Tatyana M. Ali '02 presented a hip-hop alternative to the House's traditional Delta blues for a crowd of over 200 fans...
...These are not fines for misbehaving," said Coveney. "Damages are damages and every bit is costly. Most fines don't even cover the actual cost of repair...
...lead singer called out the choruses in Spanish, the mostly-white audience jumped, bounced, danced, waved their hands and responded as best they could in a language most of them barely knew. Your writers might know that if they got out to some live shows a bit more often. Instead, they like to deconstruct the commercial-radio big boys and pretend they have discovered the key to race relations in Boston...
...bit about music providing the key to social change--I don't doubt that it can, in as far as it can create a broader awareness of the human condition, in a particular place or in every place. But to assume that getting kids to listen to hip-hop is the key way to bring about that awareness and that change is really to misunderstand the way both music and the phenomenon of social change work. And if you expect commercial radio stations to be on the front lines of political or cultural battles, you need to realize that commercial...
...think I've been playing up to what I should be doing," Janowski said. "With Laela gone it's going to be a little bit harder. I think the starting forwards need to give a little bit of incentive to the people coming off the bench...