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...Harvard, you’ve got cash! Why do you pay your workers trash?” (Harvard doesn’t pay these guards—AlliedBarton does). Meanwhile, other students banged giant water jugs like drums, adding to the fever. The protestors, who seem to delight in making mountains out of molehills, have one thing right: It sure feels good to have a cause to rally behind. Yet watching college students put their bodies on the line for unionized security guards who make almost twice the minimum wage—and equal to the Cambridge-decreed living wage?...
...that hip-hop has had such a big influence on the genre already, and why English words and slang phrases regularly creep into reggaeton verses. While Luny Tunes-produced “Gasolina” might be the genre’s “Rapper’s Delight,” crossovers can happen in many directions, especially for a genre like reggaeton, at the crossroads of pop, hip-hop and more traditionally Latin and Caribbean music. As hip-hop turns towards bare-bones snap music and syrupy “chopped and screwed” remixes...
...Maki ended with the famous words of Roman architect Vitruvius, who wrote that a structure must exhibit the qualities of utilitas, firmitas, venustas—translated as “useful, strong, and beautiful.” But Maki said that by venustas Vitruvius really meant “delight.” “Beauty is subject to time, individual tastes, whereas delight transcends time,” Maki said. “Today we have tremendous excitement in terms of technology, but perhaps we shouldn’t forget these kinds of qualities...
...dacha, the ZIL limousine, the special shops and the insularity of working behind a telephone-covered desk. He and his wife, Naina, lived in an apartment near the center of town, from which he drove to work or, frequently, took a bus or the subway - to the shock and delight of citizens accustomed to seeing nothing of party big shots but the gray curtains of their speeding ZILs. His popularity increased when he began breezing into food and clothing stores, scolding clerks for rudeness and managers for incompetence. And he became an absolute idol when he carried his campaign into...
Lynch hit higher and higher notes on his trumpet as Palmieri improvised on the piano, effortlessly pushing the piece faster and faster. By its end, the crowd was in paroxysms of sheer delight...