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...breaks up with girl, she pretends it doesn't hurt; oh, but it does. "Walk Like a Man": girl spreads vicious rumors about guy, he's advised to walk away from her. "Dawn": poor boy selflessly tells rich girl she'd be better off with her own kind. "Rag Doll": rich boy's parents keep him from courting poor girl he loves. "Bye Bye Baby": married man won't pursue a girl he's fallen in love with. "Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'Bout Me)": guy absolves ex-girlfriend from her guilt of marrying someone else. "Tell...
...sounds or (on "Stay") pow sounds-the oohs and ahhs of 50s doo-wop. But there was a solidity to the Seasons' backing vocals. With Valli doing all the filigree work, the other three were the long, smooth, sturdy road his falsetto danced on. Listen, for example, to "Rag Doll" (one of 51 selections on the very rich Seasons Anthology CD from Rhino Records). It begins with four bars of oohs, setting an eerie, pretty mood that won't quite reveal itself, then explodes into four bars of AHHHHHS. It's not Beethoven, but it has a pop majesty...
Kavulla and his team had placed a parody ad for the Fulla doll, a Barbie alternative popular throughout the Islamic world for its “Muslim Values,” on the back page, taking some liberties with the “Muslim Values” claim. “And She Really Talks!” the fake ad boasts, listing some (also fake) programmed phrases: “Yes, Husband,” “Human Rights? That’s silly,” and “Let’s push Israel into...
With cases like that in mind, Yasin contacted Kavulla and Ryan M. McCaffrey ’07, The Salient’s publisher, to voice his concerns with the Fulla doll parody. “I told them that we felt the piece was inappropriate and degrading to Muslims,” he says. “They told us to take it with a grain of salt and refused to apologize...
...parties present quickly agreed free speech prohibited any punitive action against the Salient. But they also brainstormed two proposals to mitigate the effects of similar articles in the future. The first, a more specific goal, was to enlighten students about the Fulla doll—especially that the doll does not say what the Salient claims it says...