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...crowd in Paine Hall was transfixed as Masi Osseo-Asare '00 and Teddy Maynard '00 finished singing "His Eye on the Sparrow." After a silent pause--when the hum of the piano stopped reverberating through the hall--the audience jumped out of its seats, clapping and cheering...

Author: By Ashley F. Waters, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Festival Honors Black Legacy, Talent | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...chips have been around for nearly three decades, but 1997 was the year Grove's life's work reached full flower. It was the year cell phones, Websites and E-mail became ubiquitous, the year the global economy, for good and ill, became an undeniable reality. Intel chips hum at the center of everything from coffee machines to Hollywood's special effects to Wall Street's trading desks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MAN AND THE MAGIC | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...rest may wonder what all the fuss is about. Another turn-of-the-90s band puts out a CD full of studio out-takes and a couple of live recordings. Ho hum. But it'll be their loss. Jane's Addiction was one of the most dynamic and exciting rock bands ever, and Kettle Whistle shows why. During the course of nearly 75 minutes and 15 songs, there is not a feeble track to be found...

Author: By Josiah J. Madigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jane's Relapse Shines as Necessary, Promising Fix | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...affliction into a Mary Poppins-style ditty: "Supermasochistic Bob has cystic fibrosis/ He should've died when he was young, but he was too precocious.../ A lifetime of infection and his lungs all filled with phlegm/ The CS would have killed him if it weren't for S&M/ Hum-diddle-iddle-iddle I'm gonna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: NOT SO SICK | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...second half of the concert went to the Pastoral Symphony, one of those old favorites that many can hum from start to finish. The orchestra attacked it with zest and did a fine job handling this picturesque masterpiece. However, with so well known a piece, any orchestra has to work that much harder to present the music in an engaging and expressive manner. That extra oomph was lacking in the Bach Soc's standard, somewhat unoriginal interpretation of the symphony. The most lyrical moments sometimes came across as a bit too brisk and deliberate--as, for example, in the famous...

Author: By Jennifer K. Little, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Friday Night Bach Soc Hop to Dance About | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

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