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...isn’t until “Unhappy,” however, that Big Boi reveals his emotional flexibilty, a far more noble goal than mere stylistic variation. The track is a gilded prison of sumptuously layered electro-orchestration and bongo breaks, distant blips and nostalgic raps (“When I found that Santa Claus was nothing more than Vanilli, it was silly...”) riding on booming bass swells. Finally, the inclusion of Goodie Mob veteran Cee-Lo on “Reset” shows far more design than most of the posse collaborations...
...Floch-Prigent, and two top corporate lieutenants, Alfred Sirven and André Tarallo, the latter dubbed Mr. Africa. They have meticulously described how Elf kept a slush fund, overseen by Sirven, allegedly used to pay bribes via Swiss accounts to African leaders including Savimbi and Gabon President Omar Bongo, as well as to channel money to the two main French political parties. Pressed by Desplan, 47, the pugnacious presiding judge, Le Floch-Prigent described how Elf's payoffs in France first tilted toward the Gaullist party of Jacques Chirac until then-President François Mitterrand, a Socialist, personally summoned...
...Aztec temple, bongo drum and headdresses made of pheasant feathers do not immediately bring Shakespeare to mind. But in Richard III, which opens on the Loeb Mainstage this weekend under the direction of Kenneth P. Herrera ’03, the Aztec empire will serve as the backdrop to the Elizabethan historical tragedy...
Other protesters danced and sang to the rhythmic pounding of bongo drums—and makeshift musical instruments—that some protesters played as they pressed forward towards the stage...
Robbins said he was awed by the sheer number of people. He said that it took years to assemble a crowd that size in the ’60s. Many of the protestors hoisted signs, while some flew kites and others played bongo drums and tambourines...