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...genres is dizzying. Green croons unabashedly on “Tropical Island,” coupling stereotypically lilting island music with lyrics like “Ring-ding, another one dies / Watching posers scandalize / Trading off their panty lines one day.” Abruptly, “Cannot Get Sicker” yanks the listener’s frame of reference in the direction of woozy jazz, only to divert him again with “That Sounds like a Pony,” a song with John McCrea-like monotone speech-song and the added curiosity of movie...
...crowded room, as Ulinksy once put it, and then took over. Well, Mark was a fucker too.” When the Vice President (an unnamed but depicted Al Gore) loses the 2000 election, Keith retracts his marriage proposal to his then-girlfriend Jillian; he cannot conceive of marriage as a possibility in the wake of political disaster. This is the only perspective the novel presents. Though Gessen implicitly acknowledges that this perspective is flawed and at times ridiculous (as when Mark likens his sexual fumblings to the German communist Karl Liebnicht’s failed revolution), he presents...
...there, not there to the point that when the temple lamp was passed she dipped her fingers into the fire instead of hovering at its edge. She did not notice the pain. Murali [Yalini’s father] knows now that you cannot escape your demons. He sees me, Yalini, as perhaps most like Uma: she has those other world eyes.” Ultimately, the novel ends without real resolution: the tension between tradition and the future remains as fraught as ever. Even though she has avidly researched her past, Yalini’s future remains undetermined...
...school, and that was actually one of the factors.” Bray also plays the percussion in the Harvard Pops Orchestra and the Gilbert and Sullivan pit. However, her experience with THUD allows her to explore and challenge herself in ways that playing percussion in a traditional orchestra cannot. She enjoys taking on the challenging pieces that THUD performs, utilizing all percussion parts. Bray believes that, for percussionists who participated in innovative ensembles similar to THUD in the past, having the opportunity to continue to explore their passion at Harvard enhances their college experience. “I think...
...prospects at the next election (which doesn't have to be held until 2010), openly wonder whether Brown's long time in Blair's shadow has truly prepared him for the top job. Seen through that prism, his U.S. trip and other such international fixtures are a test he cannot afford to flunk...