Word: dipper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learn about twice as much math as their regular counterparts. "I used to look up at the night sky and say, 'Yeah, so what?' " recalls Aphrodite Kapetanakos, a Watertown junior. "Now I show my friends a constellation and say, 'Check it out!' All they know is the Big Dipper...
...into the classroom. At Boston's Josiah Quincy School, Pat Keohane's first- graders play an animated game of hangman, filling in seven blanks that form the word cumulus. In Pittsburgh local Meteorologist Brian Sussman creates mini-planetariums for fifth-graders by piercing the shape of the Big Dipper on the bottom of plastic cups. In a fifth-grade classroom at the Hillside School in Needham, Mass., students think up celestial similes: trees become the "roots of the sky"; sunlight is "butter pouring through a hole"; clouds are savored as "marshmallows." When children look skyward for lessons and inspiration...
...Bears--Snakefinger, Big Dipper, Scanner Darkley...
While the general thrust behind the Suns seems to be an investigation of how little structure a song can have and still be a song, Big Dipper insert their bursts of oddity within relatively normal frameworks. All the songs on Dipper's debut EP, Boo-Boo, are vaguely recognizable forms of straight rock and roll, country or pop balladry. "Faith Healer," for example is a conventional rock tune made interesting by a contorted and bizarre riff, seemingly some sort of comment on the TV preacher of the title...
While Big Dipper could be a lot tighter--the rhythm section nearly falls apart during "San Quentin"--Boo-Boo is a worthwhile debut. Nothing on this disk is as immediately startling as Volcano Suns' "White Elephant," but then again this EP is a lot easier to listen to than the Suns' All Night Lotus Party. For those who like musical roots mixed in with sonic radicalism, Boo-Boo by Big Dipper is Boston's next big thing...