Word: detour
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Next Big Thing. The real second datewith Beck Hansen, so to speak, is still to come.If this album isn't Odelay: The Return,perhaps it shouldn't have to be. The loose soundof Mutations has its own ample pleasures:unpretentious, old-fashioned, out-of-tune, like anamusing detour off the highway across America. Thetumultuous vanguard Beck created on Odelaywill still be there, hopefully, when he goeshunting for it. And so, hopefully, will we.Photo courtesy of GeffenBECK MUTATIONS...
...road trip, a few miles from a ferry that would free us from our car, a giant fly landed in the ointment. The turn-by-turn directions I had downloaded for free from Big Book had been, so far, flawless. But now the printout was advising that I detour to the south; all the traffic, however, was proceeding due east. What to do? Heed the computer's advice, or follow the herd? Stupidly, I hadn't packed an atlas or road map. "Ella pinched me!" someone shrieked in steerage. Tick-tick-tick. "Follow the traffic," hissed My Wife...
...your way to the MFA, take an interesting detour at the world headquarters of the First Church of Christ Scientist (T: Symphony, Green Line). The nineteenth century Mother Church is to the Christian Scientists what St. Peter's in Rome is to Catholics...
This year, however, a concussion--his fourth--forced him on a bit of a detour. Luckily, Turlais says, he suffers no ill effects from the injury, but it meant a change in what by then had become a regular routine...
...Albert Kim '99. Crazy enough to be drawn by the Harvard name and "all those glorious things we as pre-frosh believe it will deliver," Kim, who is preparing for a European tour and has definite intentions to study at a conservatory after graduating, proves that the non-conservatory detour can be taken in stride...