Word: calypsos
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Diego draws in a crowd with a melange of calypso and oldies favorites outside Bertucci's, in the heart of Brattle Square. Like a Siren, he lures even the most reluctant pedestrian into a seat on the granite bench in front of him and offers them ready lapse into a summer pace of life...
...mantra of the album is the refrain of its second track, "Good Life," where the women incant in a breezy calypso lilt, "I'm livin' a good life, no more trouble in sight." Beginning with their Calvin Coolidge duds on the CD cover, the ladies propound a hip-hop-capitalist work ethic throughout Brand New. Sure they are "Livin' good, like a Nubian Queen should," but only because, as honorary member Spinderella puts it later in the track, "I busted my ass to get to the cream...
Captain Cousteau's legacy is renewed as each new diver slips below the surface and perpetuates the motto of his beloved ship, Calypso: "We must go and see for ourselves." Over dinner in Orlando, Fla., last January, he urged, "We must explore! The greatest threat to the oceans is ignorance. Permanent mistakes are being made by good people who do not know what they do not know about...
...child, Cousteau was notable for his passion for breaking high school windows. As an adult, after completing France's prestigious Naval Academy, he poured that energy into inventing the aqualung, building the first manned undersea colonies, and floating for more than 40 years over the sea floor in The Calypso, a refitted mine-sweeper from which Cousteau shot the first color footage of life in the deep. For the wiry, red-capped Frenchman, exploring every nook and cranny of every ocean on the globe for such hugely popular television series as "The Underwater World of Jacques Cousteau" came as easily...
...creators might have had fun with that aspect of his character. Instead, they have conjured up a guy who seems to be on a very long journey to find his missing Prozac, even when he is rolling around in the sand sweating and staring lustfully at the goddess Calypso (Vanessa Williams) as if this were an episode of Baywatch: The B.C. Years...