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...those occasional songs I listen to and think: Damn, that lyric would have been so much better if they had used this other word instead. Listen to “A Dustland Fairytale” by The Killers and tell me the phrase “night gown?? shouldn’t be replaced with “night cap.” Sorry, it’s just a fact, and now you’ll never listen to this song the same way again...
...delight to interview: warm and witty, by turns conspiratorial confidant and elusive roadblock, but always brilliant and kind. He had unusual flair for a Harvard dean. We will never forget his debut as “Josephine Knowles”—in lipstick, wig, and billowing ball gown??at the Gala celebration of the merger in October 1999. Knowles and then-Provost Harvey V. “Buttercup” Fineberg ’67 serenaded the dignitaries with Gilbert and Sullivan songs personally rewritten for the occasion...
...many years; they’ve also set up extremely high expectations. While “Random Spirit Lover” is a valiant attempt to live up to them, it doesn’t quite make it. Opener “The Mending of the Gown?? flicks and flutters at hummingbird speeds, with verses punctuated by a stabbing guitar riff and frenetic piano accompaniment. Krug’s eccentric wail reverberates somewhere on the spectrum between the New Pornographers’ A.C. Newman and Polyphonic Spree’s Tim DeLaughter, sharing the latter?...
...Cambridge’s annual “Town-Gown?? meeting last night, Harvard and other local university officials said they were seeking to offer more graduate student housing in Cambridge that could boost nightlife...
Cambridge Mayor Michael A. Sullivan says that the case will not exacerbate “town-gown?? tension...