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...customarily recommends Stravinsky's taut, granitic Symphony in Three Movements "as an object lesson to any rock band that wants to play with precision and tight sound." Rice, 25, attended Lancing College, then spent two years working toward a career in law. Together they have fashioned a clever, youthful blend of skepticism and romantic questioning. Early on, Judas reflects on Christ...
...Angela Lansbury, as the Countess, wins honors hands down as the film's principal asset. She not only parades around in a dazzling array of black and/or white costumes, but also dominates several of the most clever scenes in the film. Whether insulting her lesbian attendant, or shrieking for fine strawberries, or flamboyantly embracing the quest for money, Lansbury brings to her part the exaggerated theatricality which came off so well in Prince's Mame. After announcing her engagement to Conrad, she takes her fat daughter aside and says: "I was thinking of pink for the bridesmaids, but really...
PENN-PRINCETON: A guy who must have been really clever once said, "The more things change, the more they stay the same." And today Penn plays Princeton. Penn used to be terrible, then it brought in a lot of jocks and got good. Now the Quakers are lousy again. Princeton has disappointed its fans, and now the Tiger costume is worn out. But why should Princeton lose to Penn? No reason. The Tigers...
Most Americans, of course, are under the casual impression that their government has been deescalating the war, seeking to leave Vietnam, in fact, ever since the opening of the talks in Paris in March of that year. But the apparent de-escalation has amounted merely to a clever shift in emphasis, combined with an adept appraisal of how far the war could be extended and prolonged without a complete collapse of the political economy at home. The beginning of the near-worthless talks and an end to the fruitless, politically detrimental bombing of the North shattered a growing and powerful...
...Rutgers show the Band wanted to announce a course, "Women in Social Uplift: a course designed for a bunch of boobs." The Band thought it was a clever pun; the administration decided it was crude...