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...Ryan C. Downer ’04, Cabot House representative on the Student Affairs Commitee of the council and chair of the task force to extend library hours countered, said he did not believe Long was involved in the library initiative...
More recently, however, notions of faceless bedroom producers, vinyl culture and spinning records as performance have become commonplace, thanks to mass marketing and overall cool factor. The downer this time is that, unlike thrilling chart-toppers like “Firestarter” and “Setting Sun,” the music in the limelight is barely deserving of notice. Most popular are formulaic, cheap-rush trance that any talentless hack with a computer can cough out, and its dry counterpart “progressive” house, the style championed by purists like John Digweed...
...sounds like a downer. But Chekov is also known for his sense of humor. How do you incorporate that element into a tragedy...
...three game losing streak was a big downer for all of us,” Yenne said. “We could feel it at practice and the games. Now that we’re winning again, we’re very excited about the NCAAs and the last game of the season...
...show in which the two leads (Craig Bierko and Kate Levering) wind up destroying each other; another character spends the entire second act paralyzed by a stroke; and yet another doesn't come to life until after he's dead. That "Thou Shalt Not" doesn't become a complete downer is a tribute largely to the flavorful music of Harry Connick Jr., the jazzman making his first foray into Broadway. Connick does best, not surprisingly, with the Dixieland-style numbers meant to evoke the period. But he also shows impressive range, with Sondheim-esque character songs, a sweet children...