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...native country, where it is displayed outside Hemingway's former home. CLOSED. THE FANTASTICKS, the world's longest-running musical; in New York City. Loosely adapted from the 1894 play Les Romanesques and playing off-off Broadway, the spare production of eight actors, a piano and a harp ran for 17,162 performances after opening on May 3, 1960. CLOSED. TALK MAGAZINE, brainchild of former New Yorker editor Tina Brown and chronicler of celebrities and popular culture; in New York City. Publishers Miramax Films and Hearst Corp. cited the poor business climate after Sept. 11 as the reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

...music echoes that of his compatriot, Ali Farka Toure, whose joint album with Ry Cooder won a Grammy award in 1994. The rolling, Eastern-flavoured music combines acoustic guitar with traditional arrangements and instruments, such as the Kamale N’gone, or youth’s harp, to great effect —the music is simple and evocative, showcasing Koite’s expressive voice. While not as rock-influenced as Salif Keita on recent albums, Koite promises to be an exciting, upbeat show. —Andrew R. Iliff

Author: By Erik Beach, Andrew R. Iliff, and Matthew S. Rozen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Out & About | 9/20/2001 | See Source »

...contrast to Tricky’s swerve back into the mainstream, Björk has taken a subtle left turn up her own secret street and found yet another playground, with its own female choir and Zeena Parkins on harp. With computer mix duo Matmos assisting with the intricately layered gurgles and rattles that serve Björk where others are reduced to hitting skins with sticks, Björk wraps her voice around you and seduces you entirely. Where Tricky mixes himself into the background in favor of his collaborators, Björk knows that it is only...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Divergent Evolution: 'Blowback' and 'Vespertine' | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...simply appealing track, with its soaring, choir-backed chorus. It is the overture to the more involved pleasures of the rest of the album, which culminate in the long, seductive curve of “Unison,” which builds slowly over subtle clicks and rattles while the harp supplements Björk’s devastating voice, finally given full rein after an album of largely downplayed numbers. In the end, the song dissolves into arpeggiated harp patterns, and a looped keyboard swirl as Björk disappears into the ice cave from whence she came...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Divergent Evolution: 'Blowback' and 'Vespertine' | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...assignments. Coach was very encouraging about the few jokes I did send him. Though he didn't like my bit on how we should drill in barren Alaska instead of Texas, where they have people and baseball teams, he liked the ones about how only tiny women play the harp, why hotels give you shower caps and sewing kits but no toothpaste, and how bathroom signs are the only places in society where a thin, barrel-chested man can be next to a dumpy woman shaped like a triangle. I was feeling pretty good about myself until he complimented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming Off The Funny Bench | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

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