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...screen. It was as if they were playing a high-stakes game in which the first to respond to [the semi-outsider lost social clout]. A few minutes later they responded. Not to Carmichaels, but to a vibrating iPhone.“Dude let’s go to Drake??s club. He said we could hang out with the guys,” the British one said, excited. The group picked up their monogrammed L.L. Bean backpacks and headed towards Winthrop, Carmichaels scurrying along after them. As I settled into a carrel a few floors above...
...Czar emeritus John T. Drake ’06 cancelled the event—again, because of rain—matter-of-factly citing the chance for mass electrocution. (Rumor has it that the rally was actually cancelled because people kept leaving the period off the end of Drake??s band name, “Blanks.” The rule is that, even if it appears in the middle of a sentence, Blanks. ends with a period...
...song progresses, both the listener and Buckingham can get lost in the waterfall of notes flowing from the strings, until finally the whisper of the artist’s voice fades out over muted tones. But “Gift of Screws,” unlike Nick Drake??s similar-sounding corpus, is not all moody sobriety; it’s also fun. In fact, the album is actually best when it’s in more lighthearted spirits, and Buckingham’s former pop star is allowed to shine. “A hundred years underground...
...minimalist production, the album has both the progression and the strength of a storm—and like a storm, desperation and fear shrouds its approach. “Help Me” is as subtle and as elegantly-orchestrated a cry of futility as Nick Drake??s “Cello Song,” all the more tragic for the Parkinson’s-induced trembling in Cash’s voice. This physical debility from such a normally-imposing figure turns the next track, “God’s Gonna Cut You Down...
...tell Alice the story of the Walrus and the Carpenter using illustrations on their skirts. Acting and costuming thus combine for a re-imagining of each character that is extraordinarily successful. It does, however, fall short in a few instances—the most glaring of which is Drake??s decision to sexualize the Queen of Hearts (Lauren L. Jackson ’07). While this has the potential to be an interesting departure from the traditional chubby ball-buster, it is not executed well (no pun intended), and ultimately comes off as not within the spirit...