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...without pulling in guest artists. Usually, though, they are bogged down with repetitive and maudlin lyrics. Mary J. Blige lends her soul credibility in “Whenever I Say Your Name” for some of the album’s brighter moments. But ultimately, the song falls flat with its swarmy, sugar-coated chorus and failed attempt at manufactured gospel. The opening track, “Inside,” prepares us for the occasional verbosity and chronic blandness that characterizes the rest of his songs and “Never Coming Home” sounds like...
...irony of it all is lost at Harvard. Saucy diatribes against investment bankers, flat-tax advocates, and politicians working in the private sector would be comical for their simplicity, if they didn’t attack so viciously many students’ noble visions of what it means to be successful in life. A student dreaming of becoming a CEO, for example, finds fulfillment in the quest for wealth (see Adam Smith on the nobility of such a motive...
...some say quality is already on the decline. Several who attended this year’s Freshman Jam, like Crimson Key Society member Jody M. Kelman ’05, say the performance seemed flat compared to past years...
...Robot’s emphasis on style over substance produces a handful of nearly unlistenable missteps, sunk by empty lyrics and flat, repetitive song structures. But the high points of the 39-minute spree suggest that if these professional impostors learn a few new tricks, their expiration date might be extended a while longer yet. —Simon W. Vozick-Levinson
While not every resident of One Western Avenue enjoys its spectacular river views, each and every resident, and every innocent passerby for that matter, is subjected to the building’s exterior. Flat and Spartan, the building’s face is decorated only by different sized windows in a seemingly random pattern and bricks of varying color and texture. Residents tended to outdo the critics in their creative assessments of the building, some commenting that it resembles “a hospital,” “a prison,” “a psychiatric...