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...palpable enthusiasm with which they are played brings out their finer points. Nels Cline is astonishing on lead guitar, Pat Sansone (keys/guitar) and Mikael Jorgensen (keys/laptop) are quietly innovative, Glen Kotche is rhythmically and melodically dynamic behind the drums and John Stirratt is powerful on bass and harmony.The true genius of the live-album format is revealed in the many moments where Wilco’s performance transcends their pre-recorded material. At the end of opener “Misunderstood,” Tweedy boldly forces his voice up an octave to declare...
Appreciation Even in today's celebrity culture, there are few people whose medical updates lead to newspaper billboards being changed. In late October, I watched the news vendor tear off FINAL VIGIL FOR BEST and replace it with GEORGE RALLIES. GEORGE BEST, whose genius on the soccer field?combined with his antics off it?made him a modern icon, held on that day. But last Friday he lost the final round to multiple organ failure after complications triggered by a lung infection, aged 59. Even generations unborn when he worked his soccer magic lamented the loss of a great sporting...
...Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $12/10/8. Whatever else one may think about Tony Kushner’s dramatization of the fall of Communism in Russia, the punctuation of its title is certainly unexpected. After all, whatever the play’s oft-discussed “spiritual genius of the Slavic people” actually is—suggested answers include sorrow, vodka, and the motherland—it’s pretty clear that it’s not the kind of joyful exuberance that requires an exclamation point at the end. Kushner is, of course, the type...
We’re the Bill Clinton of the college set: we’re powerful, and for every positive story about our contributions to academia or science, there’s one more stained dress. As with the coverage of the photogenic genius-cum-trainwreck Clinton, the coverage of Harvard seems star-struck—but when the New York Times specifically solicits Harvard’s female students for their thoughts on marriage, maybe the fascination has gone...
Well, no. Owner James E. Murray is not so much a misunderstood genius as a friendly entrepreneur, and has no plans to move to Argentina. Yet Murray does run an efficient operation, posting strict rules meant to keep business flowing during typically packed rush hours at his Harvard Square institution. And, in a world where one can barely look at a Pez dispenser or Junior Mint without memories of Jerry and the gang, he inevitably invites comparisons to the most feared soup artisan of the “Seinfeld” New York...