Word: disco
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...party was that much more poppin’. If you were around Mt. Auburn St. on Saturday night, then you probably heard the music blasting from Hillel as dozens of students got together to celebrate Harvard’s bar mitzvah in style. On the dance floor, a disco ball colored the walls as a DJ blasted everything from Miley to T-Pain, transforming the worship room into a shrine to the party gods. Merav D. Silverman ’10, who planned the event, explains that the purpose of the party was to show that, “Jews...
...been to bring out of the woodwork a whole segment of readers that publishers had traditionally believed never existed," says the agent Chatterjee. She describes them as "college and high school students, the under-25s, whom we all liked to believe would rather buy a pizza or go disco-dancing than spend money on a book." But they will buy books relevant to their own lives. Amitabha Bagchi, author of another IIT novel, Above Average, says young Indians want to read about themselves "not entirely as an act of narcissism but also as part of a process of adapting...
...Piece,” and “Wicked Wisdom”) which are funky, but—with the exception of generally strong bass lines—jump around far too much to be enjoyable.Much of the rest of the album is similarly caught up in a campy disco-funk mess, but there are some standouts. “Touched Something’s Hollow,” while dangerously close to chord-for-chord replication of “Imagine” (and the intro to “Don’t Look Back in Anger?...
...Hard to Tell Who’s Going to Love You the Best.” While once the prized secret possession of Formers—that is, former writers at now-defunct music magazines, former proprietors of coffee shops that keeled over and died as soon as disco came about—the aforementioned coterie of contemporary musicians are more than indicative of not only Dalton’s relevance, but also the need to know about...
...with a homeless man, a bully in her classroom, a difficult relationship with her more bourgeois sister and her dismal husband. Poppy's peppiness sustains her in other, less dramatically pointed ways as well. Like a lot of single working women, she makes a life with her girl friends - disco dancing, afternoons in the park, modest attempts at self-improvement - that to a degree compensates for their lack of romantic relationships...