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Folds came first came into prominence in 1995 as the pianist, singer and primary songwriter for the ironically named Chapel Hill trio Ben Folds Five. With Darren Jessee on drums and Robert Sledge on bass, the group soon found a niche in the indie-rock scene. Their self-titled debut album betrayed the band’s powerful combination of Folds’s reckless piano playing, angst-ridden, intelligent lyrics and uncanny ability to write addictive hooks. Wading through the cliché-filled waters of lost love, self-loathing and rejection with a raw originality, Folds quickly proved...
...saved / All the low things / I’ve learned to be / In this mess I have made.” And it was a record store failure. The album was a far cry from the loud, angry angst of the band’s debut, and certainly not “Brick: Part Two” as so many fans and critics wanted. The band’s most introspective, well-integrated album was met with largely mediocre sales and reviews...
...Sontag, art matters, sometimes more than life itself. Two fascinating pieces recount her rather daring directorial debut in Sarajevo in 1993, a time when rifle rounds were still zinging lethally across Sniper’s Alley. The play, Waiting for Godot, could have been exploited facilely—both in performance and in these essays—for its uncomfortable relevance in a place of such imminent mortality. But it is typical of Sontag that she embraces nuances whenever possible and measures out her observations carefully, with the political message demurely concealed beneath the aesthetic...
...seems that we will never know for sure what Kamen has up his sleeve until Ginger makes her public debut, allegedly sometime in 2002. But Prof. Jerard is quick to note, “[Kamen] himself said [Ginger] was not going to change the world, and that it’s just a lot of hype someone came up with...
From her Harvard debut against Texas A&M a year ago to her game-winning assist at Yale on Saturday, Westfall has distinguished herself with her ability to outwit her defenders. In the midfield, she moves the ball forward. When she has time and space near the net, she is a scoring threat. That makes her Harvard Coach Tim Wheaton’s obvious choice on free kicks within striking distance...