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...about a boyfriend, then about work. "The Sewing Machine" (from The Perils of Pauline): "I bobbin the bobbin and pedal the pedal / And wheel the wheel all day/ So by night I feel so weary / That I never get out to play." And in another Pauline song, the sublimely frantic "Rumble Rumble Rumble," Betty practically falls off the piano top she's perched on, so agitated is she singing about how she can't get to sleep because the guy upstairs plays boogie-woogie all night: "He goes a-rumble, rumble, rumble on the bottom,/ He goes a-tinkle, tinkle...
...Crimson coach Chris Ridolfi said. “Vassar plays kind of a different style of offense than we’re used to seeing, and we had trouble taking care of that in the first game. They played the game a little faster and more frantic than we’re used to.”The Brewers dominated the first game from the start, shooting ahead to a six-point lead before Harvard managed to score a single point. After falling so far behind, the Crimson failed to close the gap, and Vassar remained ahead by five points...
...Opportunity,” is anything less than finely crafted avant-pop that puts the rest of the “indie-prog” sub-sub-genre to shame. In fact, opener “The Perfect Me” finds Deerhoof refueled with their unique brand of frantic, scattershot rocking. Soon after, however, the immediacy and unpredictability vanishes, and the songs become too comfortable—at least, by Deerhoof standards. “Friend Opportunity” is by no means a misstep. It’s an easily listenable, fun album, and the band?...
DIED. Abb Pierre, 94, French Catholic priest who stubbornly championed the homeless in France and abroad; in Paris. In 1954 he won national attention after coming across a woman who had frozen to death on a Paris street, her eviction papers in hand. His frantic cry on the radio--"Friends! Help!"--prompted volunteers to donate blankets for other homeless people and pressured the government to offer some 12,000 units of housing...
...frantic struggle to make it to the top, few higher-income Indians-journalists included-concern themselves with the plight of the poor. Nowhere is that more evident than in Noida, where servants in the extravagant new suburban mansions commute from the squalor of the shantytown next door. When the CEO's son was kidnapped, it dominated the national news, whereas the disappearance of slum children was ignored by the press until their bodies started to be recovered...