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Perhaps more vital to the quick-strike nature of the Harvard offense was the brilliant play of the defense, which in holding the Lions to just 46 yards on the ground provided Linden and his offense with a delectably short field to work with...
Hanson presents a different kind of story. Most of my friends abhorred the fraternal trio while I couldn't help but appreciate their songs, which are complete with brilliant melodies, pre-adolescent harmonies and an innocent outlook on the world. "MMMBop" makes me want to get up and dance, play around, shake my head-and sometimes I have done even that! And there is that one amazing part in the song where all three kids have different musical lines. See, it's not that hard to listen, invite the likable parts in and acknowledge that the Hanson Brothers...
Cole is from the University of Alabama, Sanders is from Central Connecticut and McCarthy enters her final year of eligibility after a brilliant career at Florida State. The Wildcats also start a young phenom in freshman Jillian Ross...
...memoir, Burning the Days is at once uncannily precise and irritatingly vague. Here, in a small paradigm of exactitude, is the way he capsulizes a friend, Robert Phelps: "He was fond of books; steak tartare; gin from a green bottle poured over brilliant cubes each afternoon at five, the ice bursting into applause; cats; beautiful sentences; Stravinsky; and France." Salter's episodic memoir is studded with such fond remembrances of things, and persons, past: an insouciantly comfortable whore at a chic brothel in Morocco; that aged lion of a writer Irwin Shaw, drawn irresistibly to womanly beauty. "The great engines...
...conducting debut at the Budapest Opera, Solti's audience fled--not from his Mozart, but out of fear that Hitler, then in Vienna, was fast approaching. Never again. On the Chicago podium, he transfixed listeners, seemingly verging on levitation in his energetic efforts to draw tight phrasing and brilliant coloration from his musicians. His athleticism won the orchestra 23 Grammy Awards during his 22-year reign...