Word: concertizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pryor's scarifyingly frank autobiography was shot. The man is still baaad as ever, effortlessly libeling ex-wives (make that all women), Ronald Reagan (make that most white folks) and a tiny racing crab that managed to scamper onstage. But after replaying his heart attack in Live in Concert (1979) and building a hilarious routine out of his near fatal experiment free-basing heroin in Live on the Sunset Strip (1982), Pryor is here to tell you he has been off alcohol and hard drugs for seven months. Given his hell-bent lifestyle, that amounts to total conversion...
...Pryor's jokes are impudent, but not all are fresh. A routine about visiting Africa is recycled from Live on the Sunset Strip; the warmup baiting of the audience was done in Live in Concert; the junkie serenade recalls Pryor's role in his 1973 melodrama Some Call It Loving. It can also be tough to maintain your underdog snarl when you've just signed a movie contract worth $40 million. (This is a pose Pryor's sassy "godson," Eddie Murphy, avoided in his delirious HBO concert last month, the better to strut his glitter...
According to an article in Wednesday's Crimson, the Undergraduate Council's proposed Grateful Dead concert now has financial backing and requires only the approval of the administration. I urge the Undergraduate Council to reconsider the concert and to forget the whole idea. If the Council does not come to its senses, I hope that Dean Epps will veto the proposal. There are two major problems with the concert proposal...
Despite this financial success, will the event be a success from the students' point of view? This brings us to the second major problem with the proposal. Assuming that half of the undergraduate population attends the concert (I think that it will actually be a lower percentage than that), less than 10 percent of the seats in the stadium will be filled by Harvard undergraduates. In other words, the majority of the people in the audience will be non-Harvard students from the greater Boston area. Why then is the Undergraduate Council spending their time and effort...
...year before, the Harvard Band, bent on allowing the Elis as little sleep as possible, marched throught he streets of the City of Elms playing at full volume. The concert took place at 3 a.m. on the day of the Game, which apparently violated some city ordinance, landing the entire ensemble in the New Haven jail...