Word: concert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been dealing mainly with the last one. I can exhort you now to learn about your institution. It's not the biggest news, but go comb through the Crimson archives and find out that students picketed for hot breakfasts in the '70s, that a Funk Concert Happening did it in your earhole in Dunster a decade ago, or that Terrence Malick '66 was busy with his Husserl and Heidegger thesis before Badlands. When was the Red Line extended to Harvard Square? And do you know your American history? That is, ad campaigns from...
...They all more or less know how to work a room, and a few members relay stories of their escapades abroad. Several of the guys, their friends confide, are players. Whether on campus or off campus, "Chicks dig the duds." The Kroks still display a framed photograph of a concert they sang at an all-girls Catholic school in South America, in which a few tuxedoed bodies stick out from a sea of hundreds of gushing and plaid young Catholic ladies. After each gig, the Kroks invariably make their way to the audience and lap up a few compliments, smiling...
...Krok General Manager George Hicks, who has lined up two gigs for this Friday night and three for the next eveningoeach paying over a grandohad to whip out his over-used cell phone to call Stetson in his room and remind him to rejoin the group for their next concert. That was an hour ago and now Chess and the rest of the Kroks are sitting around in the parlor at the Faculty Club, waiting to sing for more corporate types fresh off a day at the Ryder Cup. Increasingly drunk, the PricewaterhouseCoopers crowd, who have rented the club...
...legendary saloon singer Bobby Short. The Kroks could learn something from Bobby. Tonight, they have sung under the shadow of the Boston Statehouse on Beacon Street, in a residence owned by the mayor, and made their way on to one of the glitzier hotels in the area for another concert. After a pretty high-energy show, they have chosen an encore that's a bit dreary, a bit quiet and not at all appropriate for their drunken audience, with whom they've had to compete for attention all night. The Kroks' sense of showmanship doesn't always...
...strength lies in numbers, and the Kroks end up like punchmasters more than anything else, except that, as one Porcellian member points out to me, the Krokodiloes make their judgements based on some kind of objective merit. Krok showmanship comes through even in auditions; between numbers in any concert, the Kroks always clasp their hands together in front of them. As Hicks makes an announcement to the auditioners, the arc of singers behind him, by instinct, all clasp their hands in the familiar pose. Each night of auditions, the numbers get smaller and smaller and eventually a few of these...