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Last weekend Phish brought their musical bag of tricks to Great Woods for two sold-out shows. The band has been on the road since the beginning of April, just after the release of its most recent album Hoist. With Hoist, the band made a conscious attempt to explore the studio as a mode of creativity. Unlike their previous albums, the material for Hoist had never been played before an audience--the idea being that the songs would grow to maturity in the studio instead of onstage...
...else. Old songs that hadn't been played in years began to show up in their set lists (ok trivia buffs, here they are: "NICU," "Gumbo," "Tube," "Funky Bitch," "Frankenstein," "Letter to Jimmy page" and two weeks before the Great Woods run, "Gamehenge"). At the same time, songs from Hoist were beginning to find a home in the live setting and were no longer a chore to perform. At last the band was back on track...
Eighteen year-old kid, headed for Harvard, dies by electrocution on spring break. Grabbed a pole to hoist his 6'2," 215-pound frame out of a jacuzzi. The pole--I don't know why--was electrified. It never should have been...
...know they will never be stars or professionals can relate to -- the victory you yourself have won, the satisfaction you can get out of it." There is surely such satisfaction felt by the Jamaican bobsledders at the end of Cool Runnings. Having crashed in their final run, they hoist their sled above them and carry it to the finish line like a dead comrade. Winning, the movie dared say, isn't everything. Trying...
Raising cash was no problem for the Aga Khan's illustrious grandfather, Sultan Sir Mahomed Shah Aga Khan. He simply let followers hoist his 243-lb. frame onto a scale and then match his weight in diamonds or gold -- a quaint practice that lapsed long ago. The present Aga Khan, Prince Karim, retains the reverence that goes with his heritage: he is the spiritual leader of the 15 million Ismaili Muslims, who regard him as a direct descendant of the prophet Muhammad. But even though Prince Karim has long been ranked as one of the world's richest...