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...once had the opportunity to see Pearl Jam live and up close. But then MTV fame grabbed hold, and I now watch them (and many other of my favorite bands) from afar. Perhaps declining record sales are in a way a blessing for these bands, and will make them truly alternative once again. JONATHAN HURWITZ San Francisco
...between wimpy Harry and hard-boiled Perry. The script can’t help but fall back on old standards and gay-baiting: Perry’s phone lights up with an obnoxious “I Will Survive” ringtone, and he gets himself out of one jam by seducing an armed thug...
He’s argued more than 33 cases before the Supreme Court, but star constitutional scholar Laurence H. Tribe ’62 may soon face his toughest crowd yet: a lecture hall jam-packed with Harvard undergrads...
Signs that Saturday's catastrophe is stretching India to the limit greet us as soon as we enter the quake zone. Even before we reach the broken houses, the landslides and the homeless droves, my translator Shaeeq and I get choked up in a traffic jam-at the head of which is an angry clot of young men banging sticks on the tops of the car that try to pass, while women weep on the verge. "We are not begging, sir, we are not begging," one protester says, with the look of a man who hasn't slept for days...
...obvious candidate like Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, or even Louis Armstrong, but rather J.S. Bach. Listen to the audience’s applause after Monk’s solo on “Nutty.” Simultaneously spellbound, confused, and awed by Monk’s avant-baroque jam, they hardly know what to do with themselves. The brilliant complexity of opener “Monk’s Mood,” displaying the great pianist at his best, truly is bewildering. It is enigmatic yet familiar, warm yet aloof...