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...most English city saw the unleashing of a torrent of clubs: The St. Botolph, Tavern, Algonquin, Puritan, University, Odd Volumes, India Wharf Rats, Country Club (Brookline), Myopia Hunt Club (Hamilton), Dedham Polo, Boston Athletic (BAA), City Club Corporation, Nahant, Mayflower (women) and Essex County. Many are now defunct. These clubs flourished only partly due to the town’s scarcity of fine restaurants. Up until just a couple decades ago, dinner at the Somerset, the Algonquin or the Chilton was considered infinitely superior to the Ritz, Locke-Ober, Maitre Jacques or any of the other fashionable restaurants...
...lightning-fast rise through academia drew plenty of attention. Another rumor held that he was on Time magazine's list of the 30 most influential people under 30. Well, almost. The now defunct Swing magazine told Elkies they were interviewing him for an article on the 30 most interesting people under 30. "But before it went to press," Elkies said, "they decided that ‘interesting' wasn't interesting enough, so they made it the 30 most powerful people under 30. They must have been using a rather abstruse definition of the word powerful, though, because the list included...
...distortion. And the lyrics sometimes are razor sharp, the sort of brilliant poetry that Reed's always done (take, for instance, "In the mystic morning where the river meets/The hurdy-gurdy of the hip-hop beat," from "Mystic Child"). Most of the songs deal with Lou Reed's long defunct marriage and the emotion does shine through, anger and sadness and helplessness reflected through the sparse chords. But then there's the other stuff, the stuff that goes "Smoking crack with a downtown flirt/Shooting and coming 'til it hurts" (from "Like a Possum"). And there...
...high points are the running and operating of defunct devices, like the rotating file cabinets and human elevator analogue, complete with passenger. There is a poetry in useless machines, like taking pictures with no film, running the toaster with no bread or switching on the empty Cuisinart--a poetry that has its own meter and history...
...artists of [the now-defunct] Lilith Fair are really going to be missing the opportunity to play together. Hopefully someone will pick up the slack. It was really well put together and the corporate sponsorship was great. The activism was great from Breast Cancer Awareness to women's health care...