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...focuses on a different mini-drama and advances the moderately bleak portrait that the album establishes. There are missteps, as on the lyrically bizarre “If,” but these occasional blemishes can’t mar the beauty of the album’s grander, more moving songs—ironically, those tracks most indebted to older music. For example, the slow-burning opener, “Swans (Life After Death),” follows the same sonic arc as Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” as a subdued...
DIED. DON KNOTTS, 81, rail-thin, bug-eyed comedian famous for his roles as bumbling deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show and ascot-sporting landlord Ralph Furley on Three's Company; in Los Angeles. Barney Fife was a tiny ensemble part until Knotts turned it into something grander, winning five Emmys in the process. A bid for family-film stardom in vehicles like The Incredible Mr. Limpet fell short, but Knotts was consistently in demand for character roles on sitcoms and in films, most recently lending his voice to Disney's Chicken Little.V...
Beyond individual appointments, Summers’ grander plan for Harvard was to centralize a sprawling University that had traditionally kept its schools at arm’s length from one another...
...studio and a consultant named Arthur, who seems to log quite a few hours in and around the studio. But otherwise, the young engineers must go it alone.Martinez and his group faced a formidable task: Recreate with man-made materials a vicious scorpion’s tail on a grander scale—and affix the giant hinged metal contraption atop a dune buggy. The result is something out of Real World/Road Rules Challenge, with the scorpion-tail dune buggy chasing around smaller dune buggies in the “kill zone” in an attempt...
...made Taylor’s goal stand up amidst a flurry of late activity. NOTES: Ralph Engelstad Arena, which cost more than $100 million to build before the 2001-2002 season, “was great,” said Du. But despite the fact that it is much grander than the rinks of the ECAC, Du added, “I don’t think we were in awe at all.”…Sophomore Tyler Magura played in front of his home crowd for the first time since he flew east to Cambridge...