Word: gracefulness
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Angels and Airwaves “The Adventure” Dir. The Malloys All hail Tom DeLonge! The former guitarist of Blink-182 has seen fit to grace the world with the band Angels and Airwaves, whose songs, according to him, have “the conceptual depth of Pink Floyd, [and] the anthemic architecture of U2…All the songs are very cinematic, anthemic and epic-sounding. The music sounds angelic. Every song gives you the chills and you feel like you want to cry but you’re conquering the world at the same time...
...Back then, Bettie Page was caviar only to the purchasers of girlie mags, tatty titles like Titter, Whisper and Wink, where she was the preeminent pinup queen of her day, maybe any day. (She was also the 13th model to grace the centerfold of a new slick magazine called Playboy.) As a movie actress she had a different appeal, limited but intense. Bettie was rich Corinthian leather to connoisseurs of specialized, and at the time subterranean, erotica - the kind that showed women, dressed in black undergarments and stockings, and pumps with six-inch heels, getting spanked, trussed and gagged...
...Game,” his indictment of intercollegiate athletics at selective colleges. It is another piece of our aristocratic athletic heritage to pretend that true athletes, amateur athletes, are dispassionate about their sports and uninterested in perfecting their skills. In reality, athletic excellence is a thing of beauty and grace. Its devoted pursuit can dignify the athlete and inspire the observer. Instead, our athletes are objects of economic discrimination and public contempt that would not be tolerated if directed against any other group of students. They are the last students who can be openly stereotyped without protest from the student...
...doesn’t “see them as Ellington’s greatest work,” he acknowledged that “there is a lot of really good music in it.” Everett explained that in 1965, Ellington wrote the music for St. Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. “It’s non-denominational, but it combines the love one has for a master being with the individual creativity of jazz,” he said.Hendricks said he recalls talking with Ellington about the piece as it was being written...
Over the past few weeks, the everyday life of Marisol Pineda ’08 has often demanded as much agility and grace as the traditional Mexican dance she considers her art. While Ballet Folklórico is “very fast paced and demands a lot of synchronization,” Pineda has also had to perform a tripartite role as co-director, choreographer, and dancer in preparation for the April 22 “Presencia Latina” show...