Word: booth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...developed quite a friendship. She was very bright, with a great sense of humor. When she recorded a song I wrote, Love Me by Name, Dusty knew exactly what she wanted. She handpicked the musicians and worked with the arranger for weeks. When she went into the vocal booth, put on the headset and closed her eyes, she reached down into the depths of her soul and made magic. As Dusty is wailing and the record is fading she ad-libs two little words: "sweet baby." She reserved this phrase for songs she most loved. It was the Springfield seal...
...staircase to the top Kong. "I gave him a 20 and he gave me back 13!" she whispers to me. We come upon a dance club pulsing to hip-hop beats; disco lights flash and swirl spastically. In the corner above the packed dance floor stands the deejay booth ornamented by two gilt Chinese dragons. The mythical beasts seem to stare at us knowingly, disapproving of such trespass. Suddenly, my friend turns to me and shouts above the music, "Where's my sweater...
...Beastie Boys. And he has never paid for a single song. "I don't know how legal that is," he says with a shrug, but free songs sure are "a good investment." His rap, techno and swing titles go directly from a laptop to the house's deejay booth. These digital music files have replaced compact discs entirely when it's time for the fraternity house to get jiggy...
...methodology for instruction, however, has generated some perceived negative results. An incident last year exemplified what sets Wei-Ming's class apart from other packed Cores. The information booth at the Holyoke Center originally called for a photograph of students watching one of his Sanders Theatre lectures. The project ran amuck when the photos revealed the students with strikingly expression-less faces. "Instead they [photographed] a music appreciation course. The responses in that class seemed much more animated," Wei-Ming admits...
...study done outside of the Harvard community warns of the danger of the monster class. Wayne C. Booth, professor emeritus of English and rhetoric at the University of Chicago, who was on the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching study commission that examined Harvard last year, claims immense classes are often the source of much of the failings of any research institution. "I am passionately opposed to large classes," he says. "The real learning occurs with one-on-one education." The commission put out a report detailing the problems with undergraduate education at the nation's 125 research institutions...