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...music heard on the radio. Soaring Broadway ballads, dewy with emotion, were instant anachronisms. A few female singers did essay the occasional show tune: Aretha Franklin did a rousing "Are You Sure" from "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," and Ketty Lester turned "Once Upon a Time" into the last frail breath of remembered ardor. But these thrushes were crowded out of the Top 40 by jail-bait divas like Rosie Hamlin ("Angel Baby"), Little Peggy March ("I Will Follow Him") and Lesley Gore ("It's My Party"), and by the teen girl groups. Many of the anthems they sang, of suicidal...
...acknowledges is a fairly vain attempt to get Harvard students to change their habits of a lifetime. Unfortunately for Lewis, the second law of thermodynamics that everything gets colder (and thus slows down) does not seem to apply at Harvard—undergraduates whiz around, never properly pausing for breath, let alone stopping. He acknowledges as much in an e-mail message, explaining, “I almost wonder if it’s possible to understand the warnings in my letter until one has actually made the mistakes.” Harvard students, so willing to glean any piece...
...Asian Baptist Student Koinonia” would be so playfully PoMo? In the great Pop Art tradition, the ABSK has appropriated a classic image of American consumerism and turned it to its own purposes. The point of this endlessly reproduced parody is not, of course, to sell breath mints, but to advertise values antithetical to materialism itself...
...field in Colombo the people's favorite wins applause every time he touches the ball. His every warm-up stretch is met with a collective intake of breath. In the 21st over of the match, Muralitharan finally prepares to bowl. Only in cricket could such a non-event spark a frenzy. "Murali is going to bowl. Murali is going to bowl," screams Nihal Samaranayake, a 46-year-old Sinhalese pharmaceutical executive, joining the rest of the stadium on his feet...
...without penalty. The sponsor of the measure said that there was “something not right” about members of Congress having more privileges in this area than council members. The proposal, like most D.C. ordinances, is now awaiting Congressional approval. Don’t hold your breath...