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Between 1977 and 1979, grandma went to every Columbia Lion football game; I missed a few road games. During those three years, we were as famous as the old wooden bleachers of Baker Field...
...Grandma never forgot to bring her notorious cowbell, which she rang whenever Columbia did anything good. Other fans had only to hear the bell to know that she was at the game...
...reason for all her enthusiasm was simple. Her son, my uncle, was a starting defensive end. He was pretty good for Ivy League standards. Grandma thought he played like Dick Butkus...
After she spent the entire afternoon clanking the cowbell and yelling at the referees, grandma would then have a couple of my uncle's teammates over for dinner. Of course, I always joined them. As they ate, they would talk about football and ask me questions about the game. Incredible...
...Grandma better get ready to boogie. From the very first cascading wooooo! on I Wanna Dance, the new album showcases a Whitney Houston who sings bolder, blacker, badder. This Whitney doesn't just want to dance with somebody, she wants "to feel the heat with somebody," and the vocal scorches. The rest of the album -- a mixture of party songs and love songs -- displays its star's subtler readings, greater vocal nuance, more dynamism and control. On the jazzy ballad Just the Lonely Talking, she eases into an adventurous scat duet with an alto sax. But she can still sing...