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Hell, even Billy Joel got in on the act with his trumped-out prole anthems “Allentown” and “The Downeaster Alexa,” conjuring up infinitely absurd images of Joel working in a steel mill, or relying on “the rod and the reel” to feed his family. Predating the Killers’ similar appropriation by several decades, Joel’s irony may have been unintended, but the best of the genre, and its musical ancestors, relied on a self-conscious tension between catchiness and acerbity...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: This Land Ain’t Flowers’ Land | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

...variation. Act II, in general, is the most traditional portion of the performance, characterized by long synchronized sequences with several rows of dancers. The corps commands less of the stage than in the first act, but nonetheless compels the audience with their astonishing synchronization. Of all characters, however, Joel Prouty as Sancho Panza and Mindaugas Bauzys as Don Quixote are the audience’s favorites. While their parts are not as technically exhausting as some others, their theatrical approach makes the audience want to see more. The dancers seem to have the most fun in the first act where...

Author: By Claire J. Saffitz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Quixote' a Fluffy Romp | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

...know it at the time, completely cured of my addiction. I don’t know how many years Dr. Shubentsov’s been in the quitting game, but according to his press materials, he’s cured thousands of people, among them Billy Joel, Courtney Cox, Drew Barrymore, and Amy Tan. His self-proclaimed success rate is 98%, and in addition to cigarettes, he can do weight-loss, drugs, phobias, and alcohol. I’d had my last cigarette back in the Square, while sitting outside of Boylston Hall and reading some books in the nice...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Mad Russian(s) | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

...they may figure that additional legal fees associated with a drawn-out appeals process will force the Lay family to settle those suits. "They could use it as a negotiating factor to convince the Lays, 'You pay off the civil factor, and we'll lay off,'" says Houston attorney Joel Androphy, author of the text White Collar Crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Enron Case Drags On | 10/24/2006 | See Source »

...Lady Helen, this new mystery--the author's 13th--is a refreshing departure. It takes a long bus ride into London's mixed-race slums to tell the backstory of the kids who killed Her Ladyship. The hero of this tale is an 11-year-old boy named Joel, who has a retarded brother, an oversexed sister and a face covered by tea-cake-size splotches--"a physical expression of the ethnic and racial battle" raging in his blood. George, a U.S. writer whose British-style mysteries were becoming a bit formulaic, took a gamble with this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Novel Mysteries From Old Masters | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

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