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Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau seems to be pulling off a similar feat with much less fanfare and indignant old ladies in the similarly stuffy realm of classic jazz. Mehldau packages his music like a popular rock artist and has the quirky, rumpled good looks of an indie frontman. But it is the music that makes the man. For his latest album, Anything Goes, Mehldau tackles a collection of standards with his accomplished trio. Mehldau ably reinterprets songs by Thelonius Monk and Henry Mancini, his lithe playing superbly set off by the popping rhythm section...
...been able to squeeze in juggling time with Harvard’s premiere juggling club, but says he only tumbles when he is out to “impress girls.” FM asked for a sample back tuck, but Marsh concluded that such a feat might be a little inappropriate in the Quincy dining hall. FM regrettably concurred...
...some reason, none of the lawyers who are defending the big greedheads have chosen to make this argument. Instead, they offer inconsistent theories to explain the obvious. Lawyers for the Rigas family, which performed the remarkable feat of bankrupting a cable company, say their clients can't be guilty of a conspiracy to loot the company because they are too dimwitted: one is "not the savviest guy," another is "clueless." Martha Stewart's defense, by contrast, was in part that she is too clever to have done anything as dumb as conspiring to break the securities laws...
Ghungroo’s commitment to commemorating its alumni and their achievements is an honorable feat. It appears that maintaining a close-knit community among participants is one of the show’s foremost goals—and achievements...
...SOSKIN: On Kaufman’s alleged greatness: the very same year that Adaptation came out, there was a wonderful Scandinavian film called Songs from the Second Floor that managed to be audacious, innovative, accessible and convoluted all at once. But the ease or difficulty of such a feat shouldn’t be the issue here: Kaufman, along with “creative” filmmakers like Wes Anderson and Darren Aronofsky, have proven that audacity and innovation don’t automatically beget relatable characters, untiresome plotting, or, as I alluded to with the “sadness?...