Word: elvises
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The College yesterday gave the final approval for the Student Production Association's (SPA) plan to invite English new wave star Elvis Costello on a trip across the Atlantic for a one-night appearance at Harvard.
The Undergraduate Council last night voted unaminously to give $12,200 and a "serious manpower commitment" to aid the effort by the Student Production Association (SPA) to snare British new wave star Elvis Costello for a one night show at Harvard.
The opportunity came with the Pop movement in the early '60s. His contribution was the image taken from advertising or tabloid journalism: grainy, immediate, a slice of unexplained life half-registered over and over, full of slippages and visual stutters. Marilyn Monroe repeated 50 times, 200 Campbell's soup cans...
One Quincy House resident says she fills her ads with specific allusions to songs and performers she likes in order to garner compatible respondents. She has included lines from Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson because she says people who pick up on these cues must have something in common with...
Among postwar American entertainers, none provoked that question more often than a kitsch pianist with a scullery maid's idea of a regal wardrobe, who for more than 40 years attracted stalwart Middle Americans to romps that he himself once characterized as "just that far away from drag." As a...