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Though not as romantic as a candlelit dinner for two, the Magnetic Fields?? concert at the Somerville Theater last Thursday was clearly a Valentine’s Day celebration of sorts, consisting of two impressive sets played to an audience filled with couples. Stephin Merritt, the band’s singer and songwriter, used the occasion to add another layer of irony to his lyrics. Though he was mostly quiet between songs in the first set, Merritt seemed to become more comfortable with stage banter in the second half of the show. “Valentine?...
...similarities with the Chain are limited to the atmosphere, however, and the omnipresent distortion adds merely another interesting twist to songs that dwell in familiar structural and lyrical territory. While “Distortion” ultimately hesitates to ascend either to the melodic or satiric heights of the Fields?? magnum opus, it presents an innovative new context for Merritt’s smirking brand of indie pop.Album-opener “Three-Way” jumps off with jangling fury, bursting to life with a shimmering lead keyboard and dueling guitars on a fuzzed-out new-wave...
...always been stuck between two fields??I like academia, but I also like being in D.C. and working on policy,” he says...
...advisors would undoubtedly overburden the House tutors, recreating the ready access sophomores have to knowledgeable resident tutors and upperclassmen in a variety of fields would be a good start. For example, each freshman Yard might have a group of specialty advisors—proctors or graduate students in different fields??who would hold regular office hours in Annenberg that any first-year could attend. Furthermore, the Peer Advising program might be focused around disciplines—each Peer Advising Fellow would be regularly available to advise first-year students (even those outside their assigned entryway...
...another of being a verbal psychologyist and every aspect of humor reveals something about human language. I get to use verbal humor not in a gratuitous way because the students are falling asleep, but I pick the joke that illustrates the point. In Cognitive science—unlike other fields??you can get away with that if you choose the jokes carefully.11. FM: Do you think that the semantic associations that people may already have surrounding the name “Faust” will work for or against our new president?SP: Will people think that...