Word: choruses
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...crap. It inspires a trancelike state of boredom punctuated by forehead-slapping grimaces of sympathetic embarrassment at its colossally stupid lyrics. The pain starts with the opening track, “What You Waiting For,” which opens with a generic beat and leads into a repeating chorus of “take a chance, you stupid ho.” It’s followed by “Rich Girl,” an excruciating cover of “If I Were a Rich Man” from Fiddler on the Roof. In case...
...Frontier Silicon, based in Watford, England, is also trying to expand what phones can do. Frontier is building a chip that allows a cell phone to double as a TV, so that a user could watch, say, sports highlights while waiting for a train. The chip, called Chorus, receives broadcast signals from television operators, digitally encoded so they can't be intercepted. That system is a threat to mobile operators, because broadcast signals bypass cellular networks. A phone owner could receive video programming without having to buy it from a mobile network provider...
...time, another takes the orange that a blind girl is carefully peeling and bites into it almost maliciously—the piece becomes a bittersweet expression of regret for days gone by and the desire to protect one from the outside world. When the characters come together at each chorus, their slow and dreamy twirling feels like a country dance that suits the setting well...
...Pirates of Penzance made wonderful use of the cozy Agassiz Theater stage with a multi-purpose rotating set. The actors’ interaction with the audience was a fun added touch—the Chorus of General Stanley’s Wards sang their entrance song up and down the aisles before heading onto the stage to finish with a delightful and facetiously choreographed number involving parasols. But perhaps the crowning touch was when major general Howard grabbed an unsuspecting audience member to weep on and was given a hanky by music director and conductor Mark P. Musico...
Though at an abstract level the leveling of the chorus may seem antidemocratic, in practice it disperses the site of the conflict. Medea’s struggle is no longer that of just one woman, but rather a general feminist dilemma...