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...Feud. “I applied totally on a whim. I can’t honestly say I’ve watch Family Feud much ever. But I know what it is. I’ve seen some episodes,” Jambaldorj said. Parilo said she felt a bit more prepared because she used to play the Family Feud board game with her family. Members of the team also said they were excited to bond with their other teammates and to represent Harvard in an unconventional setting. And even though their preparation is just beginning, their confidence shows...
...suitable welcome to the journey that is “High Places.” As the album continues, “High Places” evolves to become more electronic. The sound is difficult to describe or, for that matter, to imagine—it sounds a bit like laid-back trance music colorfully drenched with hypnotic vocals and influences from countless other styles, from Middle-eastern to Reggae. In other words, if Kimya Dawson or the Juliana Hatfield Three were to turn electronic, it is likely High Places would be the result. Between the Pearson vocal tracks, there...
...singer Caleb’s strained southern drawl is still (mostly) present throughout, and there are moments where the album looks as though it’s making a u-turn back to true Kings of Leon form. Yet something’s still off. It all sounds a bit too grandiose and cleaned up. “Only by the Night” is still a far cry from awful, though. Most of the songs are pleasant enough; it’s just that save for a few, nothing stands out. It’s when compared with...
...head of the narrator, who is eventually overcome by these ghosts of the past. Moya’s descriptive language captures the narrator’s progressive deterioration, so that by the end of the book, the author makes us wonder if we haven’t lost a bit of ourselves in this violent, perversely comedic account. We are glad to escape with only the scars of those final, apocalyptic words: “Everybody’s fucked. Be grateful you left.”—Staff writer Denise J. Xu can be reached at dxu@fas.harvard.edu...
...Good luck with that. Here in Old Blighty, the birthplace of English, the dictionary's compilers face passionate resistance from language lovers who believe that any cull reduces the richness and variety that make language powerful - and leaves us all a bit dumber. "Newspapers are often accused of setting their reading level for 12-year-olds," one opponent wrote on an online message board. "Spare us dictionaries that do the same...