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This is most evident in Motian's frenetic "Fiasco," in which Allen's improvisation degenerates into seemingly random clusters of notes amidst heightened activity in the rhythm section. But Haden takes his most intriguing solo of the two sets during this tune, coaxing unworldly, industrial and percussive sounds from his instrument...
...annual big-Springfest-band fiasco is beginning to lose its titillative value (`Council Nixes Sister Hazel,' March 9). College students here have indefatigably diverse musical tastes, and the drive to appropriate five-figure sums for a band that appeals to the whole campus attempts to reify "the campus" under a fictive narrative of "spirit" in the service of an oppressive pennant-waving ideology...
Ohio's displeasure was so plain that some officials holding a postmortem in Washington fretted aloud about "whether the town hall sent a bad message to Saddam." (Answer: Yes. Iraqi state television played portions of the basketball-court fiasco over and over.) That worry probably accounts for the White House's revived interest in getting a vote of support from the Senate if Annan returns from his mission to Baghdad without unconditional agreement from Saddam to open his palace doors to inspectors...
...high risks of seemingly safe "sexual activity" were exhibited in the wake of the recent fiasco at Stanford University in which five different brands of faulty condoms were recalled after being distributed freely to the student body by the campus Student Health Peer Resource Center. The fact that even married couples could theoretically have been affected by the faulty condoms misses the point of the argument for pre-marital sexual abstinence: While accidental and unintended pregnancies occur in marriages all the time, those children are usually brought into the world with significant advantages (such as a stable environment in which...
...last night's swims and dives offer any indication of the state of the women's swimming team, it's clear that the Crimson has overcome the Brown fiasco...