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...satirical weekly The Onion to suggest that Puff Daddy’s next single would consist of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” “in its entirety,” with no rapping whatsoever. But for every beat-jacker, there exist producers like the Wu-Tang’s RZA, who compares his use of a wide variety of short samples in a given song to that of “painter’s palette,” and biters’ approach...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kaavya Viswanathan—Master Sampler? | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...police—led by Brenda’s brother (Ron Eldard, “Black Hawk Down”)—immediately decide to blockade the projects until the denizens give up the ‘jacker of their own volition. Their logic is impeccable—apparently this happened once before. So it’s sure to happen again...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freedomland | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...there are times when a performer so transcends the script that the work seems to be just tagging along for the ride. Jack Lemmon's virtuosity in Bernard Slade's Tribute is a current example, and now Irene Worth has come along to provide another in Corinne Jacker's new play After the Season...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Worth Is Always Worth Seeing | 7/28/1978 | See Source »

Harvard's only victory this season came last Saturday when heavy winds forced cancellation of the scheduled races. The yachtsmen initiated the First Annual Headbasin International Intercollegiate Quarter-Ton Interclub Championships. Hammet, Leggett, Repps, Mike Jacker and co-captain Dave Poor weighed in at over a quarter of a ton and won the event for the Crimson...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Strong, | Title: Sailors Veer off Course in Regattas | 4/8/1976 | See Source »

...time Goodie graduated, his father was in financial difficulties, unable to send him to college. Goodie went to work as a single jacker in a Nevada mine, pounding out blast holes with a sledgehammer ("Very good for the shoulders,'' says Goodie) and saved enough money to enter Stanford University. During other college summers, he shoveled coke for the Santa Fe ("Very good for the arms") and drove a delivery truck. At Stanford, doing what came naturally, he quickly became a big man on campus. "He was the eternal sophomore," says Fellow Alumnus Earl Behrens, who became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Don Juan in Heaven | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

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