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...continues. “Buckets were stationed in the wings. The Green Room looked like a battlefield, but the show went on.”A QUESTION OF ORIGINThe Crimson’s own inquiries into the origins of the group inadvertently sparked a debate that revealed a contested detail in the genesis of the group. The problem emerged in the form of two contradictory accounts of HRG&SP’s beginnings, both found on the group’s website.The first, from the “History” section, states that “The Harvard-Radcliffe...
...mother works with a large number of Asian-American students, almost all of whom are recent arrivals from China, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand. She went on to detail the superhuman—to me at least—exertions of her students and their parents. Yes, the “hard working immigrant” is a standby American cliché, but the people I had described to me were dedicated in a way that I can only vaguely imagine...
What truly sets Spitz’s account apart from other works is the level of detail in his research. Although the book reveals little that’s new in terms of the band’s general history, fascinating anecdotes abound...
...potential detail is left unrevealed—from manager Brian Epstein’s hat size (7 and 3/8) to the fact that George Harrison “reposition[ed] [his] furniture for maximum sunlight and serenity” after becoming Ravi Shankar’s disciple in India...
...fact that whether they're on Blu-ray or HD DVD, movies look much better than they do on standard DVDs. Pop in the Blu-ray edition of Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby that comes with the PS3, and you're blown away by the detail (and by how old and pockmarked Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly look up close). Likewise, load up the copy of Peter Jackson's King Kong that ships with the Xbox HD DVD player, fast forward to an action scene and suddenly, there are two T-Rexes and a gorilla duking...