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...subversive instinct was evident from his bare feet upwards. McFerrin utilized his improvisational ability to twist classical music; Pachelbel’s “Canon” became a country and western hoe-down and received tumultuous audience response. He interjected his performances with parodied accents and hammy antics, demonstrating that pretension and talent need not be inextricably linked. While stage hands made one of many set changes, he, comically stern and stoic, played polytonal music to accompany, and pulled aside Jonathan Salz of the Sanders Theater production staff and staged an impromptu interview as he supervised the transition...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: McFerrin Makes Magic | 3/8/2002 | See Source »

...heartfelt concern for social issues. But the first track, a cover of What a Wonderful World, makes up for the general dearth of originality by wedding Joey's affectless vocal style and kick-butt guitar arrangements with Tin Pan Alley poetry and tunefulness. It's proof his comic instinct and exuberance stuck with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Don't Worry About Me | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...century "New York School" of loosely affiliated street photographers that included Frank, William Klein, Roy de Carava and Diane Arbus. What we see now is that Faurer was a crucial figure in that circle. Was he a second-tier artist? Absolutely. His output was modest. He lacked Arbus' sure instinct for the uncanny and Frank's psychological scope. But what Faurer saw from that lower perch were some things you do not want to miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: Tales of the Naked City | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...goal of Botterill’s national team career—the ultimate game-winner against the U.S. in the world championship gold medal game—had also been on a similar kind of redirection at the edge of the crease. Botterill said such goals have come through instinct, not through repetition...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Canadian, U.S. Women Roll | 2/15/2002 | See Source »

You’re Mike Tyson, and you’re getting beaten up. Where are you? No idea. You can’t see. Somebody’s raining blows down on you fast and hard. You taste blood and blind instinct takes over. You reach over and open your mouth?...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved by the Bell: Mike Tyson's Memento | 2/13/2002 | See Source »

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