Word: idealizations
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...Fair,” a four-hour multi-venue event featuring over 100 specific performances. This idea, according to Matt Weinberg, the Associate Project Manager for Arts First, came from actor John A. Lithgow ’67. Weinberg contends that the Queen’s Head is an ideal venue for alternative artistic performers like Captain and Captain and Captain and Tennille and rock bands and stand-up comedians. “We want the rock bands to play as loud as they want and at the Queen’s Head they can do that...
...Cousin Oliver contest. He, in other words, is entitled to free burgers from the Dunster Street joint for the rest of his life.Four years ago, when Ehrlich was a freshman, b. good offered a lifetime supply of burgers to whoever best demonstrated that he or she would make the ideal “cousin” to the newest patty place in the Square. Ehrlich and his roommates, hanging out in their Wigglesworth common room, jokingly compiled a list of eight reasons why Ehrlich should win—“4. My blatant lack of a love life will...
...model of accountability that measures relative gains in achievement compared to past years rather than relying on the absolute benchmarks currently in use. “It is not just about rules or threatening districts with sanctions for poor performance: it’s about creating opportunities for our [ideal] education principles to go into effect,” Ferguson said. While Cambridge Public School District officials declined to comment specifically on the NAEP results, since staffers had not yet had a chance to review the report, Justin T. Martin, a spokesman for the school district, said he was optimistic...
...Lush: With so many soaps of all scents available, Lush on JFK St would seem like an ideal place for taking the next step in fighting swine flu and selling the highly marketable gas mask. But upon inquiry, FlyBy was told that Lush indeed did not sell gas masks but did “have a wide selection of facemasks.” How delusional, as if an apricot exfoliating face mask would really help...
...silliness to ponderous platitudes. Not only would such lines as “Without love you have nothing to shoot for” do James Blunt or Chris Martin proud, they are sung not as parody but, rather, in earnest, and thus serve as the very antithesis of the ideal that Cheap Trick and Fountains of Wayne and “Dead Serious” stand for. Yet it is this kind of platitude that dominates much of this album.Taylor Hanson, who as the 1990s version of Nick Jonas might be expected to be the weak link, turns...