Word: costello
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year, the council ventured into new grounds, expanding its role as student government into social organizer. The council, together with Student Productions Association, succeeded in bringing Elvis Costello to Bright Arena for a concert, the first such concert in three years. The council's co-sponsorship of the Memorial Hall party was a move designed to promote campus unity, members...
...Team All-New England First Team All-America First Team Molly Clark '88 Swimming All-Ivy Second Team Scott Collins '87 Football All-Ivy First Team All-N.E. First Team All-Ivy Honorable Mention Joe Connolly '87 Football All-Ivy Honorable Mention All-N.E. Honorable Mention Mia Costello '90 Swimming All-Ivy First Team Elizabeth Crowley '87 Softball All-Ivy First Team Jim DePalo '87 Baseball All-greater Boston League All-New England Second Team Nick D'Onofrio '90 Soccer All-Ivy Honorable Mention Joe Dowling '87 Squash All-Ivy First Team Arne Duncan '87 Basketball...
...writing to discuss the slides shown by Elvis Costello at last Friday's concert, slides which showed a disturbing pattern and which poisoned much of the concert...
Part of the problem is that almost everybody picked wants to hear "Alison" and "Pump It Up," and Costello fixes the wheel to their tastes, destroying whatever suspense might arise from a truly random selection. True to form, the wheel at Bright yielded uninspired versions of Costello "classics"--a lot of dead time with no music and almost no surprises...
...problem seems to be that Costello wishes to be regarded as the voice of a generation in the way that Sinatra is, but he can't resist making a silly joke out of the whole process. As the beginning of his concert proved, Costello does not need the usual rock and roll trickery to be effective. He comes across most powerfully as a serious singer-songwriter with an arresting voice and a seemingly bottomless well of creative ideas. As his fans, we should demand that our voice come without all the Vegas bullshit...