Word: langs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...genuine article: a pompadoured anachronism who grew up in the blue-collar cow town of Stockton, California, listening to Dean Martin, Louis Prima and Hank Williams Senior. By putting a cutting-edge gloss on a vintage 1950s and early '60s sound, Isaak, like Lyle Lovett and k.d. lang, avoids parody by dint of sheer talent and a playful sense of irony...
...last page of the handbook is an advertisement from the Coop. The people pictured in the ad--singer k.d. lang. Popeye, a model and two cartoon characters are all white...
Later episodes waver between heavy-handed (Stephen Lang hamming it up as an embittered homeless man) and limply appealing (Melanie Mayron having relationship troubles). Like all anthology shows, Tribeca will have its ups and downs. But it also offers the pleasures of unpredictability: the sight of thinking, autonomous human beings facing real-world problems with no week-to- week narrative obligations. Don't call that quality; call it excitement...
...fans--who sang "Auld Lang Syne" after every Harvard goal--it was entertainment. Every time Harvard defender Frank Bazos came near the puck, his friends would scream "FRANK!" Amos Tuck loyalists would rhythmically rattle the plexiglass surrounding the rink for each Dartmouth score. John Cullinane, Sr. watched his son and namesake play hockey for the first time in ten years. Sue McHugh sold T-shirts, helped out with the scoreboard and watched her husband tend the Harvard goal...
...represented on FLUFFY RUFFLE GIRLS, an irresistible CD by pianist Virginia Eskin (Northeastern). May Aufderheide, probably the best known of the dozen, showed with infectious rags like The Thriller! that she could crack knuckles with the big boys. Also noteworthy are two elegiac rags by the contemporary composer Judith Lang Zaimont, which prove there's life in the old genre yet. Eskin captures all the insouciant charm of the country's first great popular music, and firmly observes Joplin's admonition that it is never right to play ragtime fast. Just well...